Generation

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.