“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.” MenSocietyCenturyCommittedNobleTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyAtrocitiesNoble ManAtrocities CommittedStalin And Hitler Author:Eric Hoffer
“in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.” LastsCoursesAsksCasesSocietyCenturyConcernScientistForgottenMeaninglessPretextDizzyPertinentPertinent Questions Author:Arthur Koestler
“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.” HumansHas BeensAgePastRaceVisionFailingSocietyCenturyHuman NatureGoodnessNobleDoctrineGoldenHuman RaceMischiefWhimGolden Age Author:Jacob Burckhardt
“The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.” NeedsBelieveDoeArtMadeMatterAgeI BelieveSocietyShareCenturyPersonalityScientistAimDressesPainterLiberationMotiveOur SocietyTrendsNavigation Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science