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- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins… — Ken Wilber
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all… — George Herbert
- It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto
- To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your… — Benjamin Franklin
- The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the… — Margery Allingham
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there. — Dean Koontz
- I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial… — Kenny Smith
- Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend… — Fulton J. Sheen