Century Quotes

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

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

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.