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.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.

If past history was all there was to the game the richest people would be librarians.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.