Home / Topics / Century Quotes

Century Quotes

Browse 4886 quotes about Century.

Century Quotes

“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”

Thinking Technology Century Innovation Eras Biology 21st Century Intersections New Era

Author:Steve Jobs

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”

Enough Lasts Turns Strong Given Century Return Stones Meals Biology Cliffs Enough Time Colony Moss Dine Boulders Gravel Topsoil

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.”

World Law Political Principles Century Design Taught Divine Intelligent Trade International Creator Physics Biology Economist Nineteenth Century Intelligent Design International Trade

Author:Daniel Walker Howe

“I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to school on American poetry in the twentieth century, from Ezra Pound to W. S. Merwin, and for very good reason. We have soaked up influence in the last century like a sponge. It's cross-pollination, first law of biology, that the more variety you have the more health you have.”

World Firsts Reason School Lasts Law Influence Century Crosses Very Good Variety Pounds Biology Twentieth Century Best Times Sponges Dynasty American Poetry Pollination

Author:Sam Hamill