Concepts Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

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

“The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did…

— Sam Harris

“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb for ‘freedom’.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

— Marc Bloch

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it…

— Sam Harris

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family,…

— Ravi Ravindra

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

— Mario Bunge

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

— Etienne Gilson