David Christian
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in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
June 30, 1946
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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
This famous quotation, from science fiction grand master Robert A. Heinlein,...
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“As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.”
― Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
― Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
“Knowledge is like a sphere; the greater its volume, the larger its contact with the unknown.”
― Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
― Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
“For the first time there appeared on earth kings, dictators, high priests, emperors, prime ministers, presidents, governors, mayors, generals, admirals, police chiefs, judges, lawyers, and jailers, along with dungeons, jails, penitentiaries, and concentration camps. Under the tutelage of the state, human beings learned for the first time how to bow, grovel, kneel, and kowtow. In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery.”
― Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
― Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
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