History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides…

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time...

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us…

— Anonymous

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely…

— Joy Harjo

It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

— Joy Harjo

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

— Paul Reiser

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the…

— Robert T. Bakker

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

— Tony Juniper

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found…

— Jack London

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

— Steve Goodman

“Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history.”

— George Eliot