#20th century

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. ↗

— Edward Witten

#anyone #beauty #century #einstein #equations

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#believe #century #come #half #i

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. ↗

— Loretta Young

#agent #believed #big #establish #freelance

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century. ↗

— Al Gore

#21st century #agenda #aids #century #decade

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#aviation #century #globalization #next #space

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #century #doubt #greatest #i

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#century #changed #did #hardly #just

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#century #ever #great #into #made

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#after #became #beginning #century #course