Quotes About History

George Armstrong Custer

ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life," von Neumann explained to Stan Ulam, "gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race.

America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor out, a phenomenon that had moved some observers to remark that America has no history but only an eternal present.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day:Time's noblest offspring is the last.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Gin was mother's milk to her.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Indeed, it required a nose both subtle and unprejudiced to understand and appreciate and thoroughly enjoy that Paris—not the Paris of M. le Baron Haussmann, lighted by gas and electricity, and flushed and drained by modern science; but the "good old Paris" of Balzac and Eugène Sue and Les Mystères—the Paris of dim oil-lanterns suspended from iron gibbets (where once aristocrats had been hung);

The obsidian flake and the silicon chip are struck by the light of the same campfire that has passed from hand to hand since the human mind began.

That zero and one were sufficient for logic as well as arithmetic was established by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1679, following the lead given by Thomas Hobbes in his Computation, or Logique of 1656.

The digital universe and the hydrogen bomb were brought into existence at the same time. "It is an irony of fate," observes Françoise Ulam, "that much of the high-tech world we live in today, the conquest of space, the extraordinary advances in biology and medicine, were spurred on by one man's monomania and the need to develop electronic computers to calculate whether an H-bomb could be built or not.

The establishment of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867 had brought an interlude of peace and prosperity, and a lifting of restrictions against Jews, to a country best known, according to Klári von Neumann, "for the gallantry of its men, the beauty of its women, and last, but not least, for its hopelessly unhappy and unlucky history.

For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell.

Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia.

Jesus' message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in history. God is seeking out sinners; he is inviting them to enter into the messianic blessing; he is demanding of them a favorable response to his gracious offer. God has again spoken. A new prophet has appeared, indeed one who is more than a prophet, one who bring to people the very blessings he promises.

The canonical books thus share in a unity of redemptive history that is intrinsic within them rather than superimposed upon them from without.53