The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the...

The conditions encountered so far have been rather reasonable. Past history tells us the Cape Horn leg is the toughest because it takes the fleet the furthest into the southern ocean.

Demokrasi Indonesia, yang banyak disalahpahami di luar negeri kami, didasarkan pada prinsip mufakat, bukan pada jumlah suara. Kami tidak lagi memakai sistem demokrasi Barat ini yang didasarkan atas suara terbanyak, dimana 51 persen suara berhak...

He’ll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

If history teaches us anything, it’s that governments are always right, and they always do what’s in the best interest of the people, even at the expense of their own political agenda. In every situation,...

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still...

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

I didn’t do it in 1066. But I’m only not guilty because I wasn’t quite alive then. The ferocity of the Normans not named Norman is underestimated in history, and I fear neither woman nor...

There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner...

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism....

Despre comunism:„Tot ce am aflat după c teva mii de ani de istorie, este că cea mai bună dintre formele posibile ale conviețuirii noastre pe păm nt este democrația societăților de tip occidental; că această...

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton...

Kita umat Islam di Indonesia terikat pada adat-kebiasaan dan kebudayaan kita, dan ini mempunyai pengaruh pula pada Islam yang kita amalkan di tanah air kita ini.

Rumors are the children of truth.

It’s been a long journey. There’s so much history, so many people, different agendas.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back...

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Present has always been in comparison with past.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and...

Newton’s work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right...

The guerilla campaigns being waged in China today are a page in history that has no precedent. Their influence will be confined not solely to China in her present anti-Japanese struggle, but will be world-wide.

History repeats itself but without a parity bit

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color – and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state...

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

We believe that more than 55 years of history cannot be effaced by sealing or demolishing structures.

I have only been the coach for a year, however, and I expect to turn this history around both in the playoffs and then at the finals in Germany.

Our parents’ generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and...

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

his history of anti-semitic and divisive, and intolerant comments.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Invisibility–there are things we can’t see now, that are there, that are embedded, that it really takes time in order to be able to see. There are many ghosts that are lurking around and lingering...

He’s Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn’t trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don’t know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn’t matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed...

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

There’s no shame in fear. It’s only shame in letting fear rule you!

When history looks back,

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict...