“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.” — Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
“In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty." Ned Low” — Patricia Goodwin Copy Share Image
We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of… — David Christian Copy Share Image
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
We both are the only women that beat Ronda Rousey. There's a history involved. Holly and I always were the underdog in… — Amanda Nunes Copy Share Image
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“At the time, most bodies worked on by anatomists were cold indeed. They were brought to Edinburgh from all over Britain --… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
