Quotes About History

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.