One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
