history Quotes

It's a funny old world.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?