History Quote by Stuart A. Kauffman

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae…

— Masha Gessen

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

There is room in history for all of us.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by…

— Gilbert Highet

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

— Julian Jaynes

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because…

— Isaac Asimov

When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history.

— Gordon R Dickson