Quotes About Modern

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

Con todas sus imperfecciones, la ciencia moderna es una técnica que se amolda lo suficiente a la naturaleza como para funcionar: una práctica que nos permite aprender cosas fiables acerca del mundo. En este sentido, se trata de una técnica que esperaba a que la gente la descubriera.

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But

Ni en el mundo antiguo ni en el medieval se concebía como una meta nada parecido a la ciencia moderna. De hecho, si nuestros predecesores pudieran haber imaginado la ciencia como es en la actualidad, no les habría gustado mucho. La ciencia moderna es impersonal, no deja espacio a la intervención sobrenatural ni a los va lores humanos; no tiene ningún propósito, y tampoco ofrece esperanzas de certezas.

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

Det är nutidsmänniskans tragik att hon har upphört att våga vara rädd. Det är ödesdigert för därmed följer att hon också successivt tvingas sluta med att tänka.

Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization

The entire modern Republican definition of the conservative movement is about efforts to define itself as "normal" and everything else as "not normal.

I think Jane Austen should write something a bit more modern.

I didn't have a cell phone, and as a result I hadn't thought much about what one would do with them, other than irritate people around me.

The change needed to restore good feeling cannot be reached by remanding women to the spinning wheel, and the contentment of her grandmother, but by conceding to her every right which the spirit of the age demands. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

We're a much more touchy-feely, hands-on generation than our fathers but juggling work, family and social life and trying to be romantic and keep yourself fit is really hard. I want to be the perfect dad but you can't be the perfect dad unless you compromise elsewhere.

I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything.

I'm not on any social media. I'm a bit analog when it comes to the Internet and technology.

I don't have social media. I don't have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

I can't say I'm a full-on gamer, since, basically, I just don't have time for it. I know nowadays, gaming can be a lot like social media. People just stay on it all day long. Like they're logged into the Matrix. But yeah, I enjoy it. When I get the time.

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.

I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.

Social media overwhelms me.