Nineteenth Quotes

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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the… — Mortimer Adler
There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding… — John F. Kennedy
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot… — Carl Sagan
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog… — Carl Ally
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. — Robert Higgs
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.… — Loren Eiseley
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. — James A. Michener
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'… — Hilaire Belloc
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy… — Bernard Lewis
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of… — Augustus De Morgan
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific… — Norman Lockyer
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into… — David Berlinski
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey
Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain… — Abraham Lincoln
Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. — Samuel Goldwyn

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