Twentieth Quotes

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 be the century of biology.

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

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

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

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

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example.

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