Century Quote by Stephen Hawking

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

— A. N. Wilson

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling…

— Robert Harris

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as…

— William Irwin Thompson

In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial…

— Martin Rees

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have…

— David Bornstein

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as…

— James Rowland Angell

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All…

— Ray Bradbury