History Quotes
Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.
18227 quotes
"The human brain evolved capacities for learning and cultural transmission."Eric Kandel
"The brain's organization reflects the organism's evolutionary history."Eric Kandel
"History repeats itself because we refuse to study its lessons."Elie Metchnikoff
"Nature's experiments preceded ours by billions of years."Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
"In blood, we see written the history of human survival, adaptation, and connection across all generations."Karl Landsteiner
"The history of medicine is written by those who dared to believe that improvement was possible."Albert Sabin
"History will judge us not by our intentions, but by our willingness to act on them."Albert Sabin
"History teaches us that the breakthroughs that change the world are invariably resisted by those invested in the status quo."Albert Sabin
"History is written by those who understand the importance of trying."Jonas Salk
"What we call civilization is merely the domestication of our own nature."Elie Metchnikoff
"To understand history is to understand the possibilities of the future."Elie Metchnikoff
"The human brain is the product of billions of years of evolution."Eric Kandel
"History is the record of human courage and folly."Rita Levi-Montalcini
"History shows that paradigm shifts are painful but necessary."Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
"Generations of scientists build upon the shoulders of their predecessors."Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
"History proves that today's heresies become tomorrow's orthodoxy."Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
"Every organism tells the story of deep time."Alfred Hershey
"History teaches us that certainty is often a prelude to error."Sydney Brenner
"History shows us that today's heresies become tomorrow's dogmas."Sydney Brenner
"History teaches us how science evolved."Max Delbrück
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history"Hermann Muller
"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it"Hermann Muller
"History teaches us that patterns repeat until lessons are learned."Oswald Avery
"History is the judge of which societies and individuals truly mattered."Oswald Avery
"History teaches us that persistence defeats impossibility."Rita Levi-Montalcini
"Every organism carries within it the story of its ancestors."Thomas Hunt Morgan
"Every generation builds upon the discoveries of the past."Thomas Hunt Morgan
"We inherit not the answers, but the questions of those before us."Oswald Avery
"Science builds on the shoulders of those who came before."Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
"Every cell contains the story of evolution."Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard