Seventeenth Quotes
50 quotes by 44 authors
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will…
— Steven Weinberg
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could…
— Tom Standage
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Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.
— John Ciardi
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Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of…
— Richard Courant
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison…
— David Bentley Hart
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And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case…
— Stephen Briggs
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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful…
— Henry Bessemer
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The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of…
— I. Bernard Cohen
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The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna…
— Aristotle
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
— David Hare
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Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in…
— John Hamill
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Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich…
— Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a…
— Marya Mannes
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth…
— E F Schumacher
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When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not…
— Leland Ryken
Who Wrote These Seventeenth Quotes
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