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Isaac Asimov on History

1920–1992 United States

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If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

The Foundation series (1951)

There is too much history and there is too little of it that is told.

The Foundation series (1951)

All history shows that we do not learn from the lessons of the past.

The Foundation series (1951)

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

The Foundation series (1951)

It is all too easy to forget that there are emotional motivations in history, as well as economic ones.

The Shaping of England (1969)

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

History is a story without an end.

The Greeks: A Great Adventure (1965)

Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?

Mother Earth News interview (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Asimov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.