Centuries Quote by Jon Krakauer

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that…

— Boris Pasternak

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

— Stefan Zweig

“we need to stop asking the history of centuries past to vindicate our actions today. History is not a manifesto for action, a list…

— Sidin Vadukut

This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets;…

— Mark Doty

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal…

— Johannes Stark

“People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entrance…

— Anthony Doerr

“Small regions of empty space will see large energies appear in the form of these fluctuations. they may be energetic electromagnetic waves. They may…

— Henning Genz

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

— Oliver Heaviside

“Basically, an EMP bomb is an electromagnetic coil wrapped around a simple pipe device. The detonation of the explosion releases electromagnetic waves in a…

— Christopher Farnsworth

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use…

— William Cohen

“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why…

— Boris Pasternak