Seventeenth Century Quotes

30 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
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
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
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
And itâ€™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
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
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
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
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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare
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
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
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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a… — Marya Mannes
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
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
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is… — Bertrand Russell
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. — Bertrand Russell
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth,… — Ivan Illich

Who Wrote These Seventeenth Century Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 30 Seventeenth Century Quotes as follows: