Quotes About Modern

Indeed, Lao-Tse's famous paradox, The largest is within the smallest only begins to make sense to an Occidental after she or he has understood what non-local information means in modern physics.

Would you regard it as a monstrous satirical exaggeration on my part or a mere statement of anthropological fact, if I assert that art criticism is the only place in the modern world, outside the Vatican, where medieval metaphysics (the Aristotelian absolute is) still flourishes?

Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves." "That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

She blushed and we went into a small lab that looked not unlike a doctor's office and smelled of naphtha. A black Formica counter ran along one wall with a shelf of little bottles above it and three light trays. A single steel sink was sunk into the counter, with a binocular microscope on one side of it and a large magnifying glass on a gooseneck stand on the other. Modern crime fighting at its cutting-edge finest.

It was the union of Franks, Goths, and Roman provincials against these Asiatics that produced the basis for modern France.

Here is America Now: smoke, greasy fumes, the friction of tire rubber, the memory of terrifying refineries with their rubbery rotten-egg smells.

And that's maybe a better description of the experience of reading the Federalist Papers now, if you're reading them for guidance through a modern crisis. The predictions of the Framers of the Constitution were accurate for a time, but history diverged from their path a while back.

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.

a circle of Göbekli T-stones, which looked very contemporary even though they were based on something over ten thousand years old.

Modern Monetary Theory was in some ways a re-introduction of Keynesian economics into the climate crisis.

Somehow he had become the very model of the modern Martian scientist;

Soll der Direktor ruhig in seinem Jugendstil-Haus wohnen, ihm schadet das nichts - ihm nicht. Er ist ein moderner Mensch und immun; seine tiefste Sehnsucht wird dadurch befriedigt, daß er auf Knöpfe drücken und an Hähnen drehen darf.

Wow, he must get more ass than a toilet seat!

Being deluged with trolley problems is one of the professional hazards of modern moral philosophy.

I Nya Testamentet finns till exempel liknelsen om den barmhärtige samariern. ... Hur kan vi tillämpa den principen i våra stressiga liv på 2000-talet? Innebär det att var och en av oss borde ta hand om en familj med syriska flyktingar?

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.