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American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996Related quotes
“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”
Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale
Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) Historian
Mon the Rangers
The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)
“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
Nick Hornby book High Fidelity
Source: High Fidelity
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62
Marc Bloch (1886–1944) French historian, medievalist, and historiographer
The Historian's Craft, pg.43
“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.
“There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.”
Flora Rheta Schreiber (1918–1988) American journalist
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities