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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.”
Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
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.”
Source: High Fidelity
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62
The Historian's Craft, pg.43
“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.
“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”
Source: Dust & Decay
“There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities