#history

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. ↗

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. ↗

— Steven Levy

#computers #debugging #history #never #period

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#history #largely #liberty #observance #procedural

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#home #identity #jewish #nationality #religion

History is more or less bunk. ↗

— Henry Ford

#bunk #less #more #more or less

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#faces #guide #history #inertia #means

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#guess #history #i #lot #played

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. ↗