History Quotes

"The greatest progress comes from understanding the past."

"History teaches us that unpreparedness is the surest guarantee of defeat."

"I think every scientist carries within them the spirit of the first humans who looked at stars."

"I think it is important to remember the past, but not to dwell in it."

"I was the third programmer on the first large-scale electronic digital computer. That gave me a different perspective."

"History will remember those who questioned and those who sought evidence above ego."

"Some of these digital computers are, I believe, the second machines ever made."

"The history of life on Earth is the history of innovation through partnership."

"The history of life is a history of cooperation, not conflict."

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

"History repeats itself to those who ignore it."

"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."

"The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings."

"When the invention of the telephone was suggested, bells were not used to signal to people at a distance."

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

"Every generation stands upon the shoulders of those who came before."

"History shows us that truth, though delayed, always emerges."

"The right man in the right place at the right time makes history."

"History is written by those who dare to question the present."

"The development of civilization has been the result of the efforts of individuals to improve their condition."

"To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, we must examine the past."

"To understand the present, we must first understand what preceded it."

"If we are troubled by the events of the present, surely it is because we do not understand the events of the past."

"The newspapers never had any use for us before."

"Heredity carries the memory of countless generations."

"The effect of the 'Machines in the Gulag' revelation could not be over-estimated in the consciousness of our civilisation."

"History teaches us that those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

"Every scientist builds upon the work of those who came before them."

"Every atom in our bodies has been recycled countless times throughout history."

"The history of our relationship with nature is a history of choices."