Century Quote by Norman Lockyer

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

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

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

— Gertrude Stein

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it…

— Andrew Marr

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the…

— Richard P. Feynman

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