Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-271] of 271 History quotesHistory QuotesHistory Previous 20 quotes You know, if you're going to make the next step in a major scientific thing, no one knows how to do it so you have to, in a sense, reject your professors and say, 'They're not getting anywhere, I'm going to try something else.' Crick and I did that at one stage and we're famous practically because we thought that what other people were doing won't get anywhere.~ James D. Watson History is a means of access to ourselves.~ Lynn White, Jr. As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.~ Oscar Wilde Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff -- watch out!~ Walter E. Williams The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow Wilson Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?~ Woodrow Wilson We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.~ Albert Wohlstetter I must confess that the picture of the world that I have presented is unpleasant... If the picture of the world I have drawn is rather bleak, it could nonetheless be cataclysmically worse.~ Albert Wohlstetter The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.~ Virginia Woolf It is always a part of the misfortunes of the vanquished that their portraits are painted and their history written by the victors.~ A. Yankee No nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.~ John Peter Zenger Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print