History Quote by James Hannam

“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived…

— Brian Stock

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason.…

— Ayn Rand

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know…

— Lord Byron

Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly…

— George Sarton

“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but…

— Étienne Gilson

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

— Bill Gates

“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it was common…

— Philip Ball

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes…

— C.S. Lewis

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if…

— Jeff Baena

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell