17th Century Quotes - Page 2

• The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Technology, Focus, Democracy

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• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  Viggo Mortensen

  America, Spain, Culture

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• Los hogares alfabetizados del siglo XVII tenían la Biblia, "El progreso del peregrino" de John Bunyan y un par de libros más. Las obras de Shakespeare eran baratas, así que se podían comprar, pero un folio costaba una libra, que entonces era una cantidad increíble de dinero.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Couple, Book, Play

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.

  Roel Reine

  School, Museums, Sea

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• Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in nature except where there are animal minds and bodies.

  Catherine Wilson

  Animal, Intelligent, Mind

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• La palabra "crap" es en realidad otra palabra muy, muy antigua. Fue tomada de la Inglaterra del siglo XVII por los padres peregrinos y los americanos ya hablaban de que las cosas eran una mierda en los siglos XVII y XVIII. Lo que hace Sir Thomas Crapper -completa coincidencia- no es inventar el retrete con cisterna, como mucha, mucha gente cree, sino que fue un gran promotor del mismo. Tenía un negocio de comercialización de productos ajenos y por eso su nombre aparecía en ellos. Cuando llegaron los soldados estadounidenses en la Primera Guerra Mundial, a todos les pareció divertidísimo que pusiera "cagadero" en ellos.

  Lucy Worsley

  Padre, Guerra, Creer

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• One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Beautiful, Wife, Precious Possessions

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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