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“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.”

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Author:Arvid Carlsson

“Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.”

Source: The God Delusion

“Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.”

Universe Stars Century Theory Achievement Endure Insight Scales 20th Century Transient Large Scale Astrophysics Greatest Achievement

Author:Fred Hoyle

“For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.”

Feels Stories Seems Records Century Achievement Repeats Britain Comparison Rejects Embarrassed Fabulous 20th Century Splendid Victorian British History

Author:David Cannadine

“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.”

“Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.”

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Book:Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.”

Would Be Interest Century Achievement Geometry Nineteenth Century

Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Firsts Lost Technology Struggle Conditions Century Communication Achievement Twenties Determine Confusion Print Domain Free Society New Technology Great Achievement Electronic Communication

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.”

World Years Has Beens Made America Past Challenges Records Progress Century Materials Achievement Hundred Fifty Enterprise World History

Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.”

Thinking Wells I Can House Democracy Alive Century Information Achievement Concerned Absolutes Library Worthy Access Treasure Offering Free Society Backbone

Author:Gillian Roberts

“Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to profits becoming a dirty word. Nonprofit is seen as more righteous, particularly when people pompously stand before us and declare, 'We're a nonprofit organization.'”

People Results Wonderful Century Becoming Achievement Organization Profit Pursuit Dirty Righteous 20th Century Nonprofits Dirty Words Demagoguery

Author:Walter E. Williams

“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”

Men Today Causes Simple Rights Century Achievement Died Possession Treasure Inheritance Recognise Battlefields Better Man

Author:Winston Churchill