1960

Explore 44 quotes from the year 1960

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

Jerome Bruner

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Topic

Intellectual history Progress

Author

Jerome Bruner

Source

The Process of Education

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bruner, Jerome. The Process of Education. Harvard University Press, 1960, introduction.

There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space.

John Archibald Wheeler

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Topic

Perception vs. reality

Speaker

John Archibald Wheeler

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wheeler, John Archibald. "Curved Empty Space-Time as the Building Material of the Physical World." Meeting of the International Philosophy of Science Association. 1960, Stanford, CA, USA.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Kerr

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Topic

Fear of flying Airplanes Air travel

Author

Jean Kerr

Source

The Snake Has All the Lines

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kerr, Jean. The Snake Has All the Lines. Doubleday, 1960.

The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Harold Macmillan

On African national consciousness.

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Topic

Post-colonialism Colonialism

Author

Harold Macmillan

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

MacMillan, Harold. Speech at the 50th anniversary of the Union Parliament. 3 Feb. 1960, Cape Colony Parliament, Capetown, South Africa, Africa.