You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more…

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.…

— Fritjof Capra

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch…

— Rick Atkinson

“It took around 500 years to human to find out that black people are human and still they don't know why the universe is black”

— Emmanuel St-Pierre

If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been utterly different.…

— George Monbiot

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

— Noam Chomsky

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

— Rodney Brooks

“The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of universal dignity,…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“Tommy might be a boy in outer appearance but he was 500 years my senior and significantly more powerful than me. "We" had a…

— Mark Tufo

“WERE, SAY, A SPANISH PEASANT TO HAVE fallen asleep in AD 1000 and woken up 500 years later, to the din of Columbus’ sailors…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly…

— Jared Diamond

The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'

— Greg McKeown

Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost…

— Tim Hecker

Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built…

— Bettany Hughes

The 500 years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire were dubbed by the poet Petrarch 'dark.' Although the 14th-century Italian was referring…

— Sarah Weinman