Famous quotes containing the words history of, era, modern, engineering and/or history:
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)