past Quotes

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.