The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country as a united nation has never in its entire history enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

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.

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.

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.

We have need of history in its entirety not to fall back into it but to see if we can escape from it.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.