The field equations and the whole history of general relativity have been complicated. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
“I was the first comic in world history, so they told me, to pick fights with children.” — W C Fields Copy Share Image
“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“The next morning, the refugees rose from their agitation to the realization that they were slowly being erased from the world, from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
To me, it's what WWE is: the history, the legacy, all the women who come before this. From Mae Young onwards, their… — Triple H Copy Share Image
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“But who will be proved right? It will only be known later. Meanwhile he is bound to act on credit and sell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.” — Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
The Great men of history spoke the truth for what it is not how they wished it to be. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation. — Ron Holland Copy Share Image
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
“• • • Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Love is the whole history of a girl's life, it is but an episode in a guy's. — Ohteen Copy Share Image
I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image