Age Quote by Joseph Fort Newton

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a…

— Voltaire

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their…

— Robert Bauval

The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down…

— Shereen El Feki

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

— Vanna Bonta

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as…

— Mark Twain

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering…

— Lord Byron

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“At length it became high time to remember the first clause of that great discovery made by the ancient philosopher, for securing health, riches,…

— Charles Dickens

“The amazing thing, when she came to do the long-postponed Egypta in 1910, after she had won international fame, was that she did indeed…

— Walter Terry

“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery that cloaked…

— Karim El Koussa

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

— Thomas Browne

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's…

— Donald Johanson