For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. Nicolaus Copernicus
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. Leopold Von Ranke
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. LL Cool J
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. Ralph Abernathy
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
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. Eldridge Cleaver
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. Monica Lewinsky
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history. Rahm Emanuel
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. Bruce Springsteen
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. Damien Hirst
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. Ibrahim Babangida
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. Gene Tierney
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. Jose Ortega y Gasset
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts. Eddie Izzard
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. Jonathan Sacks
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. Jonathan Sacks
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. Jonathan Sacks