Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer-DeWittStichwörter: history impressions headlines
We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.
Erich Maria RemarqueThe people are a story that never ends,
A river that winds and falls and gleams erect in many dawns;
Lost in deep gulleys, it turns to dust, rushes in the spring freshet,
Emerges to the sea. The people are a story that is a long incessant
Coming alive from the earth in better wheat, Percherons,
Babies, and engines, persistent and inevitable.
The people always know that some of the grain will be good,
Some of the crop will be saved, some will return and
Bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year
Some survive to outfox the frost.
Stichwörter: history social-justice landscape
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.
Hermann Franz Moritz KoppStichwörter: science life experience purpose history meaning-of-life meaning effort views purpose-of-life historian alchemy scientist vain alchemists elixir elixir-of-life life-extension
The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
Augustus de MorganStichwörter: science history admiration expectation praise astronomy recognition attention labour accurate incomplete nineteenth-century chief astronomical-society baily founder francis-baily
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
Norman Robert CampbellStichwörter: science life music world history economics genius scientists intellect isaac-newton newton beethoven ludwig-van-beethoven richard-wagner wagner galileo bach giants geniuses galileo-galilei beneficent johann-sebastian-bach lavoisier lavoisier-antione-lavoisier
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.
W.W. Rouse BallStichwörter: science history scientists discovery isaac-newton newton mathematics calculus fermat johannes-kepler kepler barrow pierre-de-fermat cavalieri infinitesimal napier wallis
Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.
Otto WeiningerStichwörter: men women history relationships
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. Stevenson IIAt the time, most bodies worked on by anatomists were cold indeed. They were brought to Edinburgh from all over Britain -- some came by way of the Union Canal. The resurrectionists -- body-snatchers -- pickled them in whisky for transportation. It was a lucrative trade."
"But did the whisky get drunk afterwards?"
Devlin chuckled. "Economics would dictate that it did.
Stichwörter: science history grave-robbing
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