Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible;… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku 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
For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation,… — Judith Hand Copy Share Image
The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.… — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Homo Defessus – Never before in human history has so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or "Asian-American"—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing, "American" is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. — Hartmut Esslinger Copy Share Image
“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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