- 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
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
- Forward-Looking
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While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
- Important
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Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
- Community
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I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.
- Universe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.
- May
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I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.
- Good
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
- Result
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
- Design
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020