There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circ...
I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
