“There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans,”
Chris Stringer
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry”
Randall Jarrell
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism”
Mary McCarthy
“All the modern inconveniences”
Mark Twain
