Any Quote by Paul Di Filippo

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of…

— David Christian

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

— M. King Hubbert

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same…

— Friedrich Schiller

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

— Karl Popper

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What…

— David Christian

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a…

— Kage Baker

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences…

— Linda Simon

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history,…

— Sylvia Earle

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

— Arthur Keith

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like…

— Camille Paglia