Assumption Quote by David Eagleman

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

— George Orwell

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

— Owen Chamberlain

Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any…

— Scott Adams

No generation before us has faced a decade of choices that will so profoundly impact the course of life on this planet as those…

— Eban Goodstein

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to…

— Alain de Botton

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

— Erica Jong

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

— Frances Wright

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

— Geoffrey Ward

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out…

— Justine Larbalestier

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to…

— Hugh Howey

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

— Herbert Hoover