#history

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#beginning #coast #east #east coast #fans

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#championships #history #lot #new #new york

I'm covering the worst president in American history. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american history #covering #history #i #president

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#attempts #benefits #companies #history #medicare

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world. ↗

— Sean Parker

#becomes #believe #could #end #facebook

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home. ↗

— Michel Patini

#cut #difficult #enormous #feel #history

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#historian #novelist #unsuccessful

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. ↗

— George Michael

#books #everything #fell #going #happily

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies