“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of… — Saul David Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty,… — David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Who knows what madness has beguiled those fools. But history teaches us that when a society grows old enough, and secure enough,… — Glenn G. Thater Copy Share Image
“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“Religion played a major part in the history of the Appalachian pioneers. Their way of life was characterized by a strong sense… — Nancy Richmond Copy Share Image
Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE's history? It's something that was the elephant in the… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
“You are created to be a creator. God does not give anyone a finished product. God did not create the telephone, car,… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“When I see you’re hurting, I want to wipe it away. When I see you doubting yourself, I want to give you… — Tijan Copy Share Image
“I was missing lectures leading up to an essay test, so I went downstairs & got my textbook & pretended to study,… — L. Tam Holland Copy Share Image
“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little… — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
