Modern Science

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or science:

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)