Modern Quotes - Page 6

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.