History Quote by Peter Brannen

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

— Charles Darwin

“Whilst it may be our species greatest achievement, responsible for every technological advance we have or ever will make, science is also poop and…

— Katie McKissick

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons

“Homo industrialis. We are so industrial (but not so wise) that we are creating a world more like the late Precambrian than the late…

— Lisa-Ann Gershwin

“Cambrian animals were not particularly large at first, but they were plentiful and innovative. Jaws appeared. Eyes appeared. Nature began experimenting with weaponry.”

— Wendy Williams

“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?”

— Peter Watts

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

— Cynthia Kenyon

“Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty”

— Matt Ridley (Author

“The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.”

— Richard J. Borden

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

— C. L. R. James

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of…

— Carl Sagan