Modern World System

Famous quotes containing the words modern, world and/or system:

    The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    ... the world always a step
    beyond the world, that can’t
    be looked for, only
    as the eye wanders,
    found.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system ... which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)