Quotes About History

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.