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Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.

— John D. Barrow The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

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We are products of a past world where sensitivities to certain things were a matter of life or death.

The Artful Universe (1995)

There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony.

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The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role.

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

This may be the low-impact evolutionary path you need to follow in order to survive into the far, far future.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

Just focusing on what exists now seems a bit exclusive.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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