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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought."
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is a finite problem.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of the centuries.
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
The most important political development of the last two centuries has been the rise of the modern state.
The most remarkable development of the last quarter of the twentieth century has been the revelation of enormous weaknesses at the core of the world's seemingly strong dictatorships.
The rise of China is the most significant geopolitical event of the 21st century.
The most successful states in the 21st century will be those that can combine the efficiency of markets with the fairness of democratic institutions.
The great struggle of the twentieth century between liberalism and totalitarianism ended with the victory of the former.
The most important political development of the last half century has been the spread of liberal democracy around the world.
The great struggle of the twentieth century was between liberalism and totalitarianism.