Century Quote by Ian Hacking

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of…

— A.J. Ayer

For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in…

— Richard Saul Wurman

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.

— Samuel Johnson

It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his…

— Stephenie Meyer

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…

— Alice Morse Earle

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate…

— Aldous Huxley

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

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang,…

— John Updike

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in…

— Alice Morse Earle