Anatomy Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but…

— Salman Rushdie

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

— Edmund Burke

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.

— Frederic Harrison

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman

History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a…

— Mark Slouka

“Life and Death were part of the same puzzle, part of the same strange and miraculous process of growth.”

— Robert McCammon

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

— Kedar Joshi

“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on…

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Karl Popper

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

— Ellsworth Huntington

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

— Anonymous