Century Quote by Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will…

— Freeman Dyson

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science,…

— J. Allen Hynek

Science is our century's art.

— Horace Freeland Judson

“As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people…

— Bruce Chatwin

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.”

— Charles N. Brown