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History Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
- If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the…
- When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has…
- We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The coming of the…
- If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain…
- Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough