Quotes of: Century Keyword

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Socrates in Cyberspace: The Search for the Soul in the 21st Century

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

Survivors: The A-bombed Trees of Hiroshima

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

The Science of Interstellar

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

Stranger in a Strange Land

You receive in return what you plant with your words and your deeds.

My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons: Building a Foundation for Success

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Scouting for the Reaper

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

. . . 'exist because there are no longer any , settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are ? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Sometimes I pretend I'm from the 19th century. Then I drive around and say, Wow! So this is what the future's like, huh?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Under the Tuscan Sun

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

Art Spiegelman

If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

Lara Stone

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed ...

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

Michael Nielsen

Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomor...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Nikola Tesla

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Nikola Tesla