Modern Quotes

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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise… — Thomas Merton
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain… — Rajneesh
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a… — Ernest K. Gann
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… — Barry Commoner
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. — Sydney Brenner
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern… — George F. Kennan
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. — Benjamin Hoff
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,… — Ludwig von Mises
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique… — Milton Friedman
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to… — Seneca the Younger
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not… — David Sarnoff
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum… — Karl Pearson
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the… — William Osler

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