Education Quote by Stephen J. Wellum

“Edward Tylor, a distinguished nineteenth-century cultural anthropologist. For him culture is “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

— William Carlos Williams

“Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it”

— Dean Cavanagh

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

— Oliver Stone

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its…

— C. Wright Mills

“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation…

— Edward W. Said

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

“Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.”

— Sara Sheridan

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in…

— Asti Hustvedt