We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.
The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
Men make history. History does not make the man.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.
Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.
He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.
History is the memory of things said and done.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
History is like a constantly changing tree.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress. . . And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
To study history is to study literature.
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.
