Century Quotes - page 6

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. (Alfred North Whitehead)
I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world... View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story. View quote
Geza Vermes
Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction! View quote
Ian Hacking
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal." View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. View quote
Josh McDowell
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,” but the word "hypothesis,” though euphonioous, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess.” If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis.” When it is understood that "hypothesis” means "guess,” people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger. (Thomas Schelling)
Without a song, each day would be a century. View quote
Mahalia Jackson
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A. D., and besides telescopes are unnatural. View quote
Timothy Leary
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. View quote
Arundhati Roy
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. View quote
Pierre Bayle
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having been naughty. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text. View quote
John Kerry
Live with your century; but do not be its creature. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century? View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Rafael made a century of sonnets. (Robert Browning)
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape. View quote
Barbara Hepworth
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century. View quote
Connie Willis
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise. View quote
Joan Robinson
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience. View quote
Jerry Goldsmith