“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
“I think a lot about the might-have-beens, the what-ifs. About the little places in history where one tiny, minute change can lead… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that,… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
“I also do not begrudge Hochschild his millions, although, unlike him, I have untold praise for the capitalist system that produced them… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
I thought I had joined one of the best clubs in the world, one of the biggest names around, and I had,… — Pepe Reina Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
My awakening to the fight for women's votes came when I was 13, and the BBC screened a drama called 'Shoulder to… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
I think Jose Aldo is a great fighter, has a great history, no one can deny that, but many people think I… — Patricio Freire Copy Share Image
I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“No matter where you went—no matter how ancient the traditions, no matter how grand the history, no matter how awe-inspiring the landscape—there… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
