Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. – Stanley B. Prusiner
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time – it has to progress or it can’t survive. – Sturgill Simpson
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. – Waylon Jennings
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. – Sonia Sotomayor
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry
I think that I altered history in ‘Elizabeth,’ and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ or ‘Gandhi.’ They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora. – Shekhar Kapur
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn’t actually come from the criminal justice system. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning. – Sylvia Earle
New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there. – Scott Bakula
I’ve been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it. – Will Hobbs
My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. – Stephen Hawking
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. – Stephen Kinzer
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann
I’ve been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. – Vir Das
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that ‘Lincoln’ is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we’ve actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln’s presidency that’s somewhat original. – Tony Kushner
Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment – that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. – Saul Williams
Look at electricity in human history – it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit. – Tyler Cowen
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise. – Wilson Greatbatch
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way. – Steve Erickson
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it’s always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. – Todd Gitlin
The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn’t stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn’t walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies. – Subcomandante Marcos
I love general history. That’s all I read really. I don’t read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that’s really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love. – Steve Zahn
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history. – Sam Graves
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch
I think… the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. – Tom Stoppard
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in ‘American History X,’ yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. – Tim Ferriss