History Quote by Grant Morrison

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

— Ted Nelson

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

“History has a way of repeating itself, but it's up to us to break the cycle.”

— Kirby Larson

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History repeats itself but does not replicate itself; it moves more like the wheels of a vehicle. Every revolution brings it to a new…

— R. N. Prasher

“History does repeat itself, but must it do so so frequently?”

— Gordon G. Chang

“The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .”

— Lawrence Krauser

“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.”

— Jennifer Latham

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.”

— A.G. Riddle

Patterns repeat themselves in history

— Rick Riordan

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman