Book Quote by Mahbud

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had…

— Lawrence Douglas

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us…

— Diane Wood

“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited by later…

— Terrell Carver

“Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future? Some of the habits of our age will doubtless be considered…

— Anonymous

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

— Patti Smith

“I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have…

— Plato

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas…

— Seneca the Younger

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said,…

— Plato

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

— Michael Beschloss

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

— Anonymous

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

— Elizabeth Janeway