If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region.… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Every direction an illusion, and every hour, minute, second. Effort. Making sense of this [partly] shared experience. Pretending we know everything.” — Monaristw Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that… — Rose George Copy Share Image
To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
