Airplane Quote by Robert L. Devaney

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

— Harold E. Varmus

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

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

— John Charles Polanyi

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies…

— Paul Saffo

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science,…

— J. Allen Hynek

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like…

— Walter Isaacson

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

— Joan Collins

Real discoveries come from chaos.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed,…

— Lewis Thomas

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

— Gertrude Stein