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History Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
- Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…
- It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.
- We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species…
- Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural…
- History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to…
- How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds
- The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn…
- Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more…
- Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.…
- Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and…
- One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through…
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place…
- One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re…
- You have to know the past to understand the present.
- In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.
- Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out.…
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