As has also been demonstrated thoroughly, one of the…

“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God.…

— N.T. Wright

We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus,…

— Julian Huxley

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses…

— Richard Engel

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture…

— Kit Harington

If you go back to the really long-run questions that interested me, the big question was why, over the centuries, the millennia, has growth…

— Paul Romer

People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or…

— Karen Maitland

In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and…

— Robert Fogel

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What…

— Carl Sagan

“Awakened by a thousand dogs, a passing truck, the tailspin of a poisoned mosquito (or, perhaps, merely the silence of my dreams), I had,…

— Richard Calder

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of…

— Kate Bernheimer

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust