Time Quote by Richard Fortey

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater…

— Luc de Clapiers

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes…

— Charles Mackay

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that we must…

— David C. Lindberg

“In these days [1908], when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the…

— Battiscombe G. Gunn

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust