You can’t just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. – Daniel Pipes
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by ‘mere machines,’ there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend. – Daniel Dennett
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age. – Michael Behe
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant. – Dallas Willard
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin Pierce Adams
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. – Erica Jong
For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all. – Melissa Bean
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. – Erich Auerbach
Most of the shows I’ve worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history. – Mike White
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. – Mark Helprin
I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that’s not relevant. – Nick D’Aloisio
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. – Elie Wiesel
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in – housing, all of those things. – Patricia Schroeder
Throughout this country’s history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II. – Eisaku Sato
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. – Charlotte Mary Yonge
Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. – Douglas Alexander
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation’s involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. – Douglas Wilder
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell
When you see ‘Star Wars’, and you see Greedo hustle up to Solo, you know they have a history; you understand that there’s a dude named Jabba the Hutt who’s after him, and Greedo is going to try to shoot him and get the money. You get what’s going on there. – Christopher McCulloch
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked. – Matt Ridley
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. – Eleanor Clift
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I’m not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers. – Daniel Woodrell
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. – David Christian
History chalks up Mr. McKinley’s War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a ‘near great’ president. – Douglas Brinkley