History Quote by Frederik Pohl

“I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.” quote by Frederik Pohl — Download Open image

“I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.”

Frederik Pohl

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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

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For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

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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…

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

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