Quotes About History

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.

It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.