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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 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

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

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

“As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people…

— Bruce Chatwin

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

— Gertrude Stein

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or…

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Joan Collins

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life…

— Wellington Mara

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

— George Friedman

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age…

— Arnold J. Toynbee