#epoch

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#been #could #epoch #example #extraordinary

We live in an epoch of denudation. ↗

— John Joly

#live

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#between #biology #branches #defined #epoch

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#dealt #disturbed #epoch #ever #historical

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#alone #anyone #birth #dreamed #earth

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#also #building #certain #certain extent #chronology

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#beautiful #beautiful woman #beauty #belle #changes

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class