For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
Writers who have delved into human nature, ancient masters of strategy, historians of human stupidity and folly, kings and queens who have… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“If you were to condense Earth’s history into a single year, land-dwelling animals come onstage around December 1, and the dinosaurs don’t… — Joi Ito Copy Share Image
“She'd like to bounce me off the ceiling." "Oh aye,that she would, but she's not trying it at the moment.You're doing well,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“From the start the proportion of asocials in the camp was about one-third of the total population, and throughout the first years… — Sarah Helm Copy Share Image
After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“William O'Neill, another historian, observed wryly that many universities prior to the rise of student unrest had at least required hard work… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling.… — Gotye Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People who grew up in the Ozark Mountains are among the most superstitious group in American history. Their intuitions generally involved things… — Rolland Love Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“Anyone who reads history at all knows that the passionate and powerful convictions of one century usually seem absurd, extraordinary, to the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“The first revolution is to transform the status of evaluation from untouchable to respectable , i.e., from the days a century ago… — Michael Scriven Copy Share Image
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Personally , I'd rather be remembered for what I've done for the world , and not for how sexy I looked in… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year… — Marillyn Hewson Copy Share Image
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“For Guido the past, like a Third World country, was merely another resource to be exploited and abandoned when the time comes;… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“Joe Sewell is the toughest strikeout in baseball history. In 14 seasons he struck out only 114 times—he never struck out three… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“t’s my belief that history is a wheel. “Inconsistency is my very essence” -says the wheel- “Rise up on my spokes if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
