History is the enemy of memory.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy, Roscoe

When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black. — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

Every bet of evolution in history came with its built in bet of madness. — Sameh Elsayed

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the path — Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality' — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan, Cosmos

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relat — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

$An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand mil — Richard E. Leakey$

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for — Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely a — Theodosius Dobzhansky

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it wer — Michael Shermer

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