Top 1200 Quarter Of A Century Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.

The median family income in the U.S. is lower than it was a quarter-century ago, and if people don't have income, they can't consume, and you can't have a strong economy. There's significant risk - actually it's no longer a risk - a significant likelihood of a marked slowdown not only in China, but also in a lot of other countries like Brazil, which is in recession. All of the other countries that depend on commodities, including Canada, are facing difficulties. So it's hard to see a story of a strong U.S. economy.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

The universities of the 21st century are going to be the smokestacks of the century.

If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

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

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a few pioneers of its own, a promise of success; but for the furtherance of its essential aim that century left it but a small inheritance of facts and methods. By its essential or ultimate aim I myself mean an adequate and acceptable description of molecular dynamics in living cells and tissues.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.

I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world - the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest writers of the 20th century were Irish. It became our only weapon, was our poetry, our music.

If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not an evolution. It was not a slow process.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.