Quotes from Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.