Martin Amis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

British Author

Michael Behe

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

American Scientist

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

American Journalist

Kenzaburo Oe

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Japanese Writer

Freeman Dyson

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

American Physicist

Alain Aspect

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

French Physicist

Peter Abrahams

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.

South African Novelist

Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

American Writer

Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

American Entertainer

Used to describe the order of something in a list, specifically the position after nineteenth.

Ordinal Usage

Often used to refer to historical centuries, helps to place events in a time period.

Historical Context

Marks the importance of a 20th recurring event or the passage of 19 complete years.

Anniversary Significance

Emphasizes that 'twentieth' is a fractional part, representing 1 of 20 equal parts of a whole.

Fractional Part

Conveys an idea of dividing something into many parts among people or entities.

Shared Ownership

Useful when describing precise and equitable distribution of resources or assets.

Precise Distribution

 If you want to have a conversation in this world, you have it with one other person. If you want to address a group, you get the same message and you give it to everybody in the group, whether you're doing that with a broadcasting tower or a printing press. That was the media landscape as we had it in the twentieth century. And this is what changed.

Clay Shirky: How...

 does not offend by superiority but then we hit the twentieth century and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality you know what happened is we had evolved from an agricultural economy to a world of big business and so suddenly people are moving from small towns to the cities

The power of introverts...

 but unless you understand the underlying reason for that pattern -- you know, why it's built the way it is -- really you've done stamp collecting. You haven't done science. Fortunately, we have probably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century that underpins that pattern.

CERN's supercollider PIPE...

 in there and with it the twentieth century and now the 21st century and all the trappings and downfalls but also the benefits and all the things that really make life special for that and probably one of the most important things with that is education and this was brought

The Call of Everest PIPE...

 you so but I'm compared to landing on the moon climbing mountains is it's a it's a selfish pursuit and I have just a tremendous amount of respect for the risk that the three of you on July twentieth nineteen sixty-nine well one of the one of this one of the stories

Everest, Mars, and...

 by a twentieth century poet. While her work can be shocking in its rage and trauma, Plath casts her readers as witnesses– not only to the truth of her psychological life, but to her astounding ability to express what often remains inexpressible.

Why should you read...

 seemed to suggest possibility and I asked what might have happened what if my examples are drawn or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first

Africa’s rhyming history...

 scientists and specialists who helped us actually confirm the provenance the age and the identity of this shipwreck and that's the key to the science that we've completed whether its twentieth century of the

Shipwreck From Explorer...

 A culture which is top-down, owned, where the vocal chords of the millions have been lost. Now, as you look back at the twentieth century, at least in what we think of as the, quote, "developed world" --

Laws that choke...

 throughout time man has sought to conquer the oceans in the mid twentieth century there was a real underwater boom the dream listed colonized the ocean across the world more than 60 underwater

Twentieth