Century Quote by William Irwin Thompson

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 this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

— Abdus Salam

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind…

— Grace Lee Boggs

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

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

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

— Brian Greene

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

Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see…

— Paul Romer

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

— Havelock Ellis

“Our lives are small temporally as well as spatially: if this 14-billion-year cosmic history were scaled to one year, then 100,000 years of human…

— Max Tegmark

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

— Thomas Kuhn

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose…

— Bertrand Russell