History Quote by Ariel Durant Download Open image ““History is subject to geology.”” — Ariel Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits or renegades… — Kathy B. Steele Copy Share Image
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours… — Tom Lloyd Copy Share Image
“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.” — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.” — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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