
„The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.“
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
— Michael Hammer American academic 1948 - 2008
p. 30; cited in: Huey B. Long (1995), New Dimensions in Self-Directed Learning, p. 323
— Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar 1902 - 1983
Susie Harries, "Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life" (2011), page ix
— Grady Booch American software engineer 1955
p. 34-35
— Kurt Vonnegut American writer 1922 - 2007
Context: A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
— William McKinley American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901) 1843 - 1901
Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
— Brian W. Aldiss British science fiction author 1925 - 2017
Context: Here is what I wrote about SF. If it has a familiar ring, my publishers liked it well enough to make it into a postcard for publicity purposes. 'I love SF for its surrealist verve, its loony non-reality, its piercing truths, its wit, its masked melancholy, its nose for damnation, its bunkum, its contempt for home comforts, its slewed astronomy, its xenophilia, its hip, its classlessness, its mysterious machines, its gaudy backdrops, its tragic insecurity.'
Science fiction has always seemed to me such a polyglot, an exotic mistress, a parasite, a kind of new language coined for the purpose of giving tongue to the demented twentieth century.
— John Gray 1948
In the Puppet Theatre: Roof Gardens, Feathers and Human Sacrifice (p. 80)
— Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
— Thaddus E. Weckowicz Canadian psychologist 1919 - 2000
p. 2
— Alistair Cameron Crombie Australian zoologist, historian of science 1915 - 1996
— Ervin László Hungarian musician and philosopher 1932
p. 21 as cited in: Kingsley L. Dennis (2003) An evolutionary paradigm of social systems : An Application of Ervin Laszlo's General. Evolutionary Systems Theory to the Internet http://quigley.mab.ms/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/An-Evolutionary-Paradigm-of-Social-Systems-MA-Thesis.pdf.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India 1888 - 1975
— Mario Bunge Argentine philosopher and physicist 1919
Matter and Mind (2010), p. 259.