Shawna Vogel science writer
Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)
30 March 1936
Armageddon
Shawna Vogel science writer
Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist
Hindu Society under Siege (1981, revised 1992)
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 3 : Mountains and Song Cycles
Ted Cruz (1970) American politician
In an interview with 's Off Message podcast. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/ted-talks-hes-not-ready-to-endorse-yet-225690 (July 18, 2016) <br class="br">2010s
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter I · Detail Assessment and Planning
Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist
Cited in: Michael Jay Quinn (2006) Ethics for the information age. p. 415
The Psychology of Computer Programming, 1971
James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) American historian
Source: An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (1902), Ch. 1 : The Historical Point of View, p. 4
Context: !-- The French Revolution, at the end of the eighteenth century, was probably the most abrupt and thoroughgoing change in the habits of a nation of which we have any record. But we shall find, when we come to study it, that it was by no means so sudden in reality as is ordinarily supposed. Moreover, the innovators did not even succeed in permanently altering the form of government; for when the French, after living under a monarchy for many centuries, set up a republic in 1792, the new government lasted only a few years. The nation was monarchical by habit and soon gladly accepted the rule of Napoleon, which was more despotic than that of any of its former kings. In reorganizing the state he borrowed much from the discarded monarchy, and the present French republic still retains many of these arrangements.
--> This tendency of mankind to do, in general, this year what it did last, in spite of changes in some one department of life, — such as substituting a president for a king, traveling by rail instead of on horseback, or getting the news from a newspaper instead of from a neighbor, — results in what is called the unity or continuity of history. The truth that no abrupt change has ever taken place in all the customs of a people, and that it cannot, in the nature of things, take place, is perhaps the most fundamental lesson that history teaches.
Historians sometimes seem to forget this principle, when they claim to begin and end their books at precise dates.
“It seems as though a new epoch were in preparation, a truly human epoch”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Antropologia Pedagogica (1910), translated as Pedagogical Anthropology (1913), p. 259.
Context: It seems as though a new epoch were in preparation, a truly human epoch, and as though the end had almost come of those evolutionary periods which sum up the history of the heroic struggles of humanity; an epoch in which an assured peace will promote the brotherhood of man, while morality and love will take their place as the highest form of human superiority. In such an epoch there will really be superior human beings, there will really be men strong in morality and in sentiment. Perhaps in this way the reign of woman in approaching, when the enigma of her anthropological superiority will be deciphered. Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects man always has yielded women the palm.