I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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

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

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

I create stars.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

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.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.