“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
“We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.” NeedsStoriesNationsModernEducatedFundSophisticatedAustralian Author:George Brandis
“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.” MenShouldAbleFormEducationModernDegreesInstrumentsMusicalAncientEducatedTunesConvenienceMusical InstrumentsEducated Man Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.” IfsMindBelieveWholeWantedFacesPoliticalValuesLeftReligiousChristianityStudyModernCrimeNeededEvidenceScientistFunctionFilledWesternAcceptedEducatedPropagandaExplanationCriticizeDeclineSuperstitionsSecularAccustomedReligious FaithVacuumsCredulityZealotFace ValueEvaporation Author:Paul Johnson
“Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.” MenLanguageModernEducatedForeignersModern ManForeign Language Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.” JobsModernProfessionBackgroundsChosenEducatedWealthyFeminineMentalityCompelledIsleModern WomanUber Author:Sasha Alexander