Quotes About Century

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

La retórica se desvaneció en el mundo académico durante el siglo xix, cuando los científicos sociales descartaron la idea de que un individuo pudiese enfrentarse a las fuerzas inexorables de la historia.

I walked head down, pressing my feet down hard on the pavement to push the city under water.... With the town sinking at the rate of thirty centimeters a century, I explained, or three millimeters a year, or point zero zero zero zero zero zero one millimeter a second, one might reasonably hope, by pressing our feet down hard on the pavement as we walked, to play some part in the drowning of the town.

These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.

The editor was often called a Bolshevist—as who is not in these days? For language is given us not only to conceal thought, but often to prevent it, and every now and then when the problems of the world become too complex and too vital, some one stops all thought on a subject by inventing a tag, like "witch" in the seventeenth century, or "Bolshevist" in the twentieth. Ben

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

Tempura-style batters were originally brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

In 1910, John Dewey published an important essay entitled "The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy" (Dewey 1981, pp. 31–41). In a recent unpublished lecture, "The Importance of Darwin for Philosophy," Philip Kitcher describes Dewey's essay as "the single best philosophical response to Darwin published in the first century after the appearance of the Origin.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

But reading the Bible, you learn that it's not about trying to be something you're not—it's about learning to see the movement and motion and possibilities right in the midst of whatever world you find yourself in. We're not living in the first century or the ancient Near East—we're here, now. At this time. In this world.

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

I asked if I could touch you and kiss you, and ye agreed. Have ye changed yer mind?" "No." Her heart thundered in her ears. "But ye're moving so fast." "Sweetheart, I doona count time in millennia like you. I'd like to get started. In this century.

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people.

I believe that Man is good. I believe that we stand at the dawn of a century that will be more peaceful and prosperous than any in history.

after over a century of such noise, the windy silence of the outdoors was strange, a kind of aural hollowness.

But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since the floods they had learned better, hadn't they?

Nix and Lothaire conversing) Have you no mate, female?" he'd asked, intrigued with her, though she was his natural enemy. "I was betrothed to Loki for a time. Which did not proceed smoothly for obvious reasons. So for now I am an unrepentant manizer." At Lothaire's blank look, she'd said, "That will be amusing in the twenty-first century.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand years - or once every ten thousand years? Maybe there are and we just don't know it because today is itself that once-in-a-thousand-year moment.

Up until the nineteenth century, the vast majority of military revolutions were the product of organisational rather than technological changes.

The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century - the attempt to concentrate all information in one place - might become their decisive advantage in the twenty-first cenutry.

In the twentieth century the American Jewish community, with more than four million members by the late 1930s, was the largest in the world,