There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is a prison,” Alfred began grimly, “in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn’t have much of what we call reality; they lived,… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
