Quotes About Modern

In a study conducted by the Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, approximately 68% of people experience phantom vibrations syndrome, a sensory hallucination where you mistakenly think your phone is buzzing in your pocket.

the idea of being a "published" author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.

If I seem unduly preoccupied with Darwin's stomach, perhaps you can understand why. It seems both apt and ironic that the man responsible for launching the modern study of fear—and for identifying it as an emotion with concrete physiological, and especially gastrointestinal, effects—was himself so miserably afflicted by a nervous stomach.

Guns were loud, expensive, and generally inaccurate. Sensible modern men used crossbows, like

And found myself then thinking: if it were nowadays, This is how Death would summon Everyman.

Way back in 1831, Michael Faraday, one of the founders of our modern understanding of electromagnetism, was asked by an inquiring politician about the usefulness of this newfangled "electricity" stuff. His apocryphal reply: "I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it".

When exactly does the "wave function collapse" take place? (So you're not kept in suspense, almost no modern physicist thinks that "consciousness" has anything whatsoever to do with quantum mechanics. There are an iconoclastic few who do, but it's a tiny minority, unrepresentative of the mainstream.)

It's only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for modern physics.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

[Paper Girls] needed to have a certain kind of almost neon style to it, but at the same time we wanted also to show the modern perspective that we had.

American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.