18th century Quote by Ernst Mayr

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Charles Stross

“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.”

— Rodger Kamenetz

“My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the day I…

— Peter Taylor

“We were kids without fathers . . . so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got…

— Jay-Z

“The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life…

— Margaret Atwood

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

“In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping away old…

— Jan Swafford

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the…

— Oscar Wilde

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”

— Prevost Abbe

“was your father, and a gentleman. Indeed, he was highly”

— Oscar Wilde

“So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men…

— Zadie Smith