Achievement Quote by Amelia B. Edwards

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a…

— James Henry Breasted

In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves…

— John Anthony West

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide…

— Margaret Murray

“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting themselves to…

— Frank L. DeSilva

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for…

— Jacob Bronowski

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to…

— Oliver Sacks

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Karl Popper

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

— James Henry Breasted

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded…

— Benjamin Disraeli