“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.” ThinkingWayTodayPainLastsCenturyChangedAmountTreatsPatientCancerEnormousReliefProvidingPhysiciansPsychicsSolacePain ReliefTreating Patients Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...” ThinkingMenWayValuesCenturyFashionPersonalityMen And Women21st CenturyAffordable Author:Stuart Rose
“I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.” PeopleWayStoriesWould BeLanguageChallengesPiecesCenturyPeriodsIncredibles17th Century Author:Amy Smart
“When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.” WayTechnologyWrittenCenturyConstitutionEvolveFoundersNew Technology Author:Al Franken
“From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.” WorldWayKindTwoTodayAmericaPoliticalPoliticsNationsIssuesCenturyAll KindsHopelessnessAmerican PoliticsWorld TodaySimplifyPolarizationPolarizing Author:N. T. Wright
“During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.” IfsKnowsWayMindFirstsAbleSciencePurposeHalfKnowledgeCenturyTasksDetailsAccomplishedDevotedDoubtfulGeneralizationScientific KnowledgeJuncture Author:Hermann von Helmholtz
“People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.” PeopleWayLittlesEyeAnimalSawsCenturyRaisedBrownDarlingCalvesBrown Eyes Author:Julia Child
“I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.” WayFeelsStillsLostLosesFantasyCenturyAsking21st CenturyUrgentMourn Author:Lev Grossman