Top 8 1670 Quotes
#1. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.
Mark R. Jones
#2. The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.
John Ziman
#3. In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
Frank Crowninshield
#5. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
Christian Nestell Bovee
#6. And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.
Farley Mowat
#7. You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.
Robert Ringer
#8. If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
Samuel Adams
