It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the... →
Freeman Dyson
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
David Eagleman
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John... →
Alice Morse Earle
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures... →
Sylvia Earle
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you... →
Ezekiel Emanuel
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
Oriana Fallaci
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
Julian Fellowes