Acorns were good until bread was found.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

I love Velveeta cheese.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

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

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

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.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.