Quotes About History

Maya's, Romeinen en T-rexen. Wat was hier aan de hand?

Tayos Gold: The Archives of Atlantis by Stan Hall

I remember the Inquisition, when pain in service to the church was raised to an art form.

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark by Sir Laurence Gardner.

Dit is Pangaea. - Jake

seventeenth century, Pope Leo XIII

Even the word salary came from the Latin salarium, which meant the amount a soldier was paid to buy salt.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.

The Holy Scrinium was the private library of the popes, said to contain amazing volumes, both religious and otherwise, dating back to the founding of Christendom.

Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.

thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That

modern plants. Early in the earth's history, cyanobacteria also generated the planet's first oxygen atmosphere, making the world livable. And since then, they had adapted to millions of ecological niches.

What has been written down only goes back some six thousand years, tracking only the briefest steps of humans on this planet. And even that record is full of gaps turning history into a frayed and moth-eaten tapestry. Most remarkable of all, down those ragged holes many of history's greatest mysteries have been lost, waiting to be rediscovered—including events that mark pivotal shifts in history, those rare moments that change civilizations.

Irenaeus, wrote

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

If you don't talk about it, it didn't happen.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Avenge the patriotic goreThat flecked the streets of Baltimore,And be the battle queen of yore,Maryland! My Maryland!

No bishop, no king"; he might have added, "No devil, no divine right.

We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

Human sacrifices?' said Laimner. 'On a civilised world like this? This is the thirty-first millennium, not primitive prehistory!

Between Hell's Kitchen and Greenwich Village lay Chelsea, the heart and soul of the Irish waterfront.