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“[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.”

Century Development Paper Physics Quantum Mechanic Twentieth Century Quantum Mechanics

Author:Abraham Pais

“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”

Stills Use Artist Century Loneliness Lonely Symbols Not Sure Privacy Twentieth Century Symbolism Ransom

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”

Philosophy Reality Three Names Views Century Mathematics Point Of View Doctrine Historian Realism Twentieth Century Medieval Surveys

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”

“If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Walks Century Eternity Injustice Falsehood Twentieth Century Footsteps

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

Firsts Music Modern Century Strength Hero First Time Combination Purity Adolescence Typical Twentieth Century Spontaneity Modern Times Wagner Physical Strength Joie De Vivre

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.”

Firsts Art Bigs Attention Century Art Is Advantage Twenties Embrace University Witty Arguing Radical Twentieth Century Alliances Assessment Provocative Patron Patronizing

Author:Peggy Phelan

“Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)”

People Hard America Term Modern Century Sweet Wind Apples Twentieth Century Prohibition Barrels Redundant Cider Apple Cider

Book:The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.”

Dream Joy Century Adventure Ancestor Twentieth Century Richness

Author:Arthur Compton

“The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.”

Humans Littles Religion Causes Support Century Conflict Evidence Corners Globes Twentieth Century Contention

Author:Michael Medved

“It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.”

“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.”

Source: Peace on Earth

“Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.”

Long States Force Term Deals Century Events Strategy Preserves Long Term Contradiction Empires Iran Twentieth Century Formidable Persian Remnants Accommodations Ethiopia

Author:Haile Selassie

“The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.”

Problem Nations Social Century Capitalism Civilized Sanity Individualism Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Social Problems Aberration Civilized Nations

Author:Albion Woodbury Small

“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”

Ifs Men World Jobs Century Theory Protection Misfortunes Entitled Wages Masculine Deprived Twentieth Century

Author:Rheta Childe Dorr

“It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.”

Years Christian Moral Opinion Middle Century Dignity Currents Believer Conception Twentieth Century Calamity

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.”

Different Together Culture Social Voice Century Late Poetic Fabric Twentieth Century Convergence American Poetry

Author:Adrienne Rich

“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.”

Ifs Needs Humans Has Beens Term Violence Century Madness Twentieth Century Climax

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.”

World Century Twentieth Century Colony

Author:Bill Henson

“What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist return that can be realized providing that this area's made accessible and resources can be extracted from it.”

World Made Seems Interesting Century Return Late Resources Areas Capitalist Providing Twentieth Century

Author:James C. Scott

“I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.”

“I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.”

Thinking Self Psychology Century Majors Reflection Catastrophe Twentieth Century Self Reflection

Author:Werner Herzog

“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.”

People Feels Reality Culture Emotion Century Tvs Disease Theater Pops Symbols Opera Idols Inability Twentieth Century Soap Soap Operas Movie Theater Clusters

Author:Jim Morrison

“Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.”

Matter Causes Century Music Is Regard Accepted Champion Urges Twentieth Century Outrage Incomprehension

Book:The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

“Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.”

“It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.”

Century Miracle Twentieth Century

Author:Clifford Odets

“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”

“The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.”

Philosophy Reality Consciousness Study Modern Century Produce Development Involved Insight Physics Transformed Eastern Twentieth Century Eastern Philosophy Modern Physics

Author:Gary Zukav

“It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment”

Humans Sometimes Energy Human Beings Cases Sun Century Divine Stores Atoms Locked Twentieth Century God Image Bombarded

Author:Huston Smith

“Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.”

People Seems Political Democracy Economic Conditions Century Source Exercise Extraordinary Meaningful Concentration Twentieth Century Elusive Political Power Most Meaningful

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.”

Looks Parent Century Approach Invention Relief Survivor Dread Adolescence Twentieth Century

Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

“Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference.”

Source: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”

Challenges Decision Century Produce Capitalism Financial Architecture Twentieth Century Degenerates

Author:Will Hutton

“It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.”

Ifs Christian Church White Records Century Tragedy Height Historian White Supremacy Twentieth Century Supremacy

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century hurts and distress. The unbelieving world-your neighbors, the guy at the gas station, the postman, the lady at the cleaners, your boss at work-is observing the way we undergo our trials.”

World Way Guy Hurt Century Neighbor Trials Peaceful Gas Convince Stations Boss Distress Observing Twentieth Century Cleaners Convicts Gas Stations Postman

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.”

Games Struggle Century Football Baseball Technological Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.”

People Way Long Social Mystery Century Transformation Tales Genre Fairy Fairy Tale Twists Misunderstood Twentieth Century Voyages Altered Commentators Realist Parental Dickens Genre Is

Author:Martin Amis

“The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.”

“In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.”

Men Real Century Absence Real Life Twentieth Century

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.”

Giving Long Millions Century Determination Scales Ideology Thanks Justification Twentieth Century Steadfastness

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.”

“Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence.”

Men Needs Mind Made Hands Fall Results Existence Creative Century Dignity Be Creative Twentieth Century

Book:A Heart for God

Source: A Heart for God

“The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.”

Worst Century Gay Damn Twentieth Century Being Gay Disco Disco Music

Author:Quentin Crisp

“It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.”

Book Country Philosophy Fate Middle Century Realization Twentieth Century Intricate European Countries

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.”

“The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.”

Thinking Men Book Facts Quality Century Masters Twentieth Century Hinder Thinking Deeply

Author:J. I. Packer

“A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.”

Years Important Ideas Powerful Fiction Century Couple Hundred Science Fiction Forgotten Philosopher Shallow Twentieth Century Very Powerful Fiction Writers Isaac

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.”

Believe I Believe Century Judging Late Atmosphere Pollution Twentieth Century Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!”

“As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.”

Art I Can Century Bounds Twentieth Century

Author:Will Self

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