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September 12 in History

Industrial Age: Revolution, Darwin, Marx, and the birth of modern science and politics.

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Industrial Age

Thinkers of the Industrial Age

George W. Bush

George W. Bush

1824 – 1900

Politics
700

quotes

George Walker Bush is an American politician, businessman, and former U.S. Air Force officer who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party and the eldest son of the 41st president, George H.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882 – 1945

Politics
176

quotes

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to have served more than two terms.

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

1889 – 1945

Politics
193

quotes

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era, which lasted from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

1872 – 1970

Philosophy
463

quotes

British philosopher, logician, and social critic.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

1879 – 1955

Science
362

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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881

Philosophy
402

quotes

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

1835 – 1910

Literature
327

quotes

Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

:"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961

Literature
234

quotes

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.