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  • History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

    Truth   History   Trying  
    Ulysses (1922)
  • And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

    Reality   Ideas   Knowing  
  • If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.

  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.
  • The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

  • The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

    Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
  • The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

  • To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

  • History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

  • Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

  • History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

  • The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

  • The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

  • Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

    Men   Two   Mammals  
  • If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the biosphere. It's a phenomenon that is deeply related to the history of life itself, so by studying cancer I think we can illuminate the history of life itself and vice versa.

    Cancer   Thinking   Cells  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press
  • Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

    Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
  • The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  • Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

    James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press
  • The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

    Years   Important   Three  
  • Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

    Life   Science   Men  
  • The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

  • I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.

    "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus magazine, September 1998.
  • Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.

    Men   Past   Desire  
  • In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

    Dating   Romance   News  
  • All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

  • The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

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

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