“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
Richard Feynman
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
“When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.”
Diane Ravitch
“Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”
“History will be erased in the universal purgatory.”
