History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857