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• As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter,… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer
• Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard
• In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the… — Charles Holland Duell
• But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved… — Julian Coolidge
• And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man… — Geoffrey Jellicoe
• During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge… — Hermann von Helmholtz
• It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical… — Kalakaua
• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter… — Rachel Carson
• The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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