“No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.” ThinkingNeedsYearsDoeTodayPastScienceCommonStudyStudentsPaperResearchYears AgoScientistOriginalsNuclearContemporarySubstanceFiftyAgreementPapersPhysicistTextbooks Author:C.P. Snow
“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.” TryingI CanFactsHelpingWould BePastMy OwnAcceptingClaimsFoolishContemporaryPainterPhenomenon Author:Joseph Plaskett
“When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.” SeemsPastDifficultPrinciplesFashionClothesDrawsContemporaryConclusionErasRetrospect Author:James Laver
“Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.” IfsMenWorldWould BeChristianPastFacesCasesImpossibleDemandMen And WomenTasksIndependentTheologyContemporaryAcknowledgeTestamentNew TestamentProclamationContemporary Christian Author:Rudolf Bultmann
“By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.” MenWayDoeRunningAgePastReadingExistenceContemporaryPlatoPlato SNativity Author:Jeremy Collier
“art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.” ArtWould BePastConditionsArt IsContemporaryContradictionWorks Of Art Author:Susan Sontag
“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.” PastDifferencesMoralJudgmentOrdinaryAffairPracticalsReactionsContemporaryHistorianProvokingImplicationsNarratorsMoral Judgment Author:Geoffrey Barraclough
“Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.” UsePastBasesHistoricalArchitectureContemporaryArbitraryEclectic Author:Karl Friedrich Schinkel
“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.” PastSidesDealsContemporaryDislike Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.” TryingKindI CanStoriesPastArtistGoalInterestingActingEmotionalContemporarySomething NewRelevantGood StoryLearn From The Past Author:Ethan Hawke