Modern society Quote by Terry Pratchett

“It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve…

— Terry Pratchett

“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science…

— Carl Sagan

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

— Jonas Salk

“Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face, possibly in…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their…

— Annie Lennox

“It is frightening to realize in full depth what it means to be a human being: that is, to realize that we are all…

— C.W. Ceram

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have…

— John Templeton

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?"…

— Al Gore

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no…

— Milan Kundera

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam