Quotes of: Histories Keyword

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

The History of Us

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

The Inner Circle

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

The Inner Circle

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

A Short History of Nearly Everything

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.

The Shadow Speaker

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals