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" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

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" If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. "

" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "

" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "

" I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. "

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

" I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

" In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud. "

" OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. "

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple. "

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "

" Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. "

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "

" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

Richard M. Nixon

" What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? "

" Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. "

Sachin Tendulkar

" Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books. "

" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

" It's a very good historical book about history. "

" What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are the women who are quite conservative in their political views. "

" The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. "

Stephen Hawking

" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "