Century Quote by Harold Innis

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

— Howard Rheingold

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to…

— William Pfaff

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

— Rene Dubos

We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would…

— Michio Kaku

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate…

— George Bernard Shaw

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and…

— Harold Innis

“It was an archetypal ruin portrait, a sub-genre that was terribly common during the fifteenth century. The top third of the picture-plane hosted a…

— Sylvie Cathrall

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art…

— Walter Pater

“At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.”

— Mark Kurlansky

“I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Most Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century considered religious unity a good idea, but only Spain’s rulers believed it was essential to…

— Phyllis Goldstein