“To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.” PeopleMatterFactsSeemsModernCenturyAuthorityAncientObviousEducatedObservationConceptionMatter Of FactConsulting Book:The Impact of Science On Society Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.” GivingBookIdeasSeemsReadingModernProfoundFamiliarLazyConceptionReading BooksCommonplace Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.” IndividualModernBirthCivilizationCrueltyConceptionHumaneBirth ControlBarbaric Author:Marie Stopes
“No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasRealClearModernCreationTheoryBuiltFoundationWidePhysicsSignificanceConceptionNewtonRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.” WantHumansUniverseCreativityModernCenturyScientistMethodMerePersistenceConceptionTributeScientific Method Book:A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
“What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted” MenHumansWarDreamTodayPoliticalCertainValuesCommonLibertyModernCivilizationImportanceThreatDoctrineConceptionCommon ManRestoringHuman FreedomUnderminingModern Civilization Author:Lin Yutang