When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion... →
Margaret Geller
I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men;... →
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history... →
Barton Gellman
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity... →
Phyllis George
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of... →
Rose George
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing... →
Tess Gerritsen
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit... →
David Gerrold
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and... →
Ori Gersht