What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time,… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
“[F]or several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting ourselves down as mere creatures" who… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“So simple is the heart of man So ready for new hope and joy; Ten thousand years since it began Have left… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the… — Rebecca De Mornay Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“No, I’m talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we'll wake… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Men were complex enough to begin with. Give them a thousand years and they only got worse, like ever-growing labyrinths of smugness… — Sara C. Roethle Copy Share Image
Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Because six billion of us are pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy, we’re fundamentally attacking the very ecological systems that keep us alive.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s debut novel you could say. Love, sex, blood, and tears. A journey to find eternal life. To escape death. It was… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“I don't wanna live a thousand years. If I just live through today, that'll be enough.” — One Piece Copy Share Image
Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
