History Quote by Stuart A. Kauffman Download Open image ““history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”” — Stuart A. Kauffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.” — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“History has a way of repeating itself, but it's up to us to break the cycle.” — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“History can be created, but recreating it can ruin its originality.” — priyanka gera Copy Share Image
“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).” — Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari Copy Share Image
History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now” — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.” — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Thus we can accept the wonderful results of the neuroscientists, accept that the mind, via neural behavior, is classically causal, and refuse the conclusion… — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image