History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Herbert Boyer
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
Herbert Boyer
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"History repeats itself to those who don't pay attention."
Kary Mullis
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"The history of biology is written by those who questioned what seemed settled."
John Gurdon
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"We are all descended from the first cell that learned to divide."
John Gurdon
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"Historical shifts in moral panics reveal changing social values and anxieties."
Stanley Cohen
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"Historical analysis shows that today's deviants are tomorrow's conformists."
Stanley Cohen
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"History teaches us to learn from the past."
Fred Sanger
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"History repeats itself to those who don't listen."
Fred Sanger
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"We are all products of millions of years of successful experiments."
Herbert Boyer
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"The history of science is the history of overturning conventional wisdom."
Kary Mullis
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"We are all products of billions of years of genetic editing by evolution."
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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"The history of biology teaches us that the impossible often becomes routine."
John Gurdon
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"The nucleus contains not just information but the memory of all life."
John Gurdon
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"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."
Fred Sanger
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"History teaches us what not to repeat."
Fred Sanger
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"Understanding our past is the only way to navigate our future."
Stanley Cohen
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"Every rule exists because someone, at some point, violated it."
Stanley Cohen
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"History will remember not the Nobel Prize, but whether the research ultimately helped humanity."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"Historical perspective teaches us that what seems revolutionary today becomes conventional tomorrow."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"History repeats itself because we don't listen the first time."
Kary Mullis
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"The genome tells the story of human evolution and human potential."
Jennifer Doudna
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"Every discovery is built on the shoulders of previous discoveries."
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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"Every organism contains a story millions of years in the making."
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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"History teaches us lessons if we are willing to listen."
John Kendrew
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"Folk devils emerge when society needs to identify threats to its moral order."
Stanley Cohen
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"Deviance amplification occurs when the response to crime creates more crime."
Stanley Cohen
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"The history of science is a story of incremental steps toward greater understanding."
Fred Sanger
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"History records not the quick victories, but the sustained efforts toward truth."
Fred Sanger
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"The history of science shows us that today's impossibilities become tomorrow's routine applications."
Jennifer Doudna