Quotes About History

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

Religion has always persecuted science.

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.