We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
Our past has gone into history.
To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.
We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of the so-called Arab system, the positional system of counting with zero dated to the eighth or ninth century.
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.
