- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
- Meeting
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- Nov 07, 2020
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
- Nov 07, 2020
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
- Biologists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to be complemented with an overview, which I think is scientific commonsense.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020