Century Quote by Polykarp Kusch Download Open image “We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.” — Polykarp Kusch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Physics Science Thinking
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. — David Russel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era. — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do. — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image