Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr