There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.
