Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.
Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.
Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight. '
That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
his voice was centuries old
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills. Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Society cannot exist without etiquette. . . It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.