Generations Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years…

— Gertrude Stein

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong…

— David Suzuki

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

— Josh Billings

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. This is your day, grandma and grandpa. Enjoy!

— Anonymous

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient…

— Justin Rosenstein

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

— J. Norman Collie

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he…

— Roger Penrose

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big,…

— Fred Rogers

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

— William Standish Knowles

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

— Michael Crichton