#the history of

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. ↗

— Paul Merton

#books #comedy #generations #history #humour

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#history #i #legacy #like #really

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#constant #desire #development #forgotten #had

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#beginning #being #centuries #century #comes

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? ↗

— Pat Robertson

#folly #fool #greater #history #human

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#because #being #considered #event #ever

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#chivalry #features #forms #history #institution

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#both #history #individual #life #neither