It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover from observations science has made that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

As I grew up I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

In my opinion the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are at the same time poetry criticism narrative drama etc.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.