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Nineteenth Century Quotes

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alfred North Whitehead
Invention, Century, Nineteenth Century
Science and the ModernWorld ch. 6 (1925)

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Century, Nineteenth Century, Wells
Robert Louis Stevenson (2009). “The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. III (1887-1891)”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

Henry Ward Beecher
Titles, Century, Nineteenth Century

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Achievement, Would Be, Nineteenth Century
"The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 400, 2000.

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