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Christopher Isherwood (1904–86) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy. Isherwood is speaking of California, “this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveler of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth.” Los Angeles , 1947, in Exhumations ...
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...the progress made in the logical and rational organization of knowledge and the corresponding formative psychological processes. With that hypothesis, the most fruitful, most obvious field of study would be the reconstituting of human history—the history of human thinking in prehistoric man. Unfortunately, we are not very well informed in the psychology of primitive man, but there are children all around us, and it is in studying children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. ‘Genetic...
John Lubbock (1834–1913) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...antiquities of Europe, we must compare them with the rude implements and weapons still, or until lately, used by the savage races in other parts of the world. In fact, the Van Diemaner and South American are to the antiquary what the opossum and the sloth are to the geologist. Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages , 2nd Edition (1869), 416 archaeologist is free to follow antiquities of Europe Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly...
Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...Bert Leston Taylor 1866 – 1921 American novelist, humorist and newspaper columist Behold the mighty dinosaur, Famous in prehistoric lore, Not only for his power and strength But for his intellectual length. You will observe by these remains The creature had two sets of brains— One in his head (the usual place), The other at his spinal base. Thus he could reason ‘A priori’ As well as ‘A posteriori’ No problem bothered him a bit He made both head and tail of it. So wise was he, so wise and solemn, Each thought filled just a spinal column. If one brain...
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880–1930) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...and Africa It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our present knowledge, that totally opposing conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on our planet, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint. The Origins of Continents and Oceans , 4th edition (1929), trans. John Biram (1966), 5 totally opposing conclusions prehistoric conditions biological or geophysical viewpoint geophysical viewpoint South America must have lain alongside Africa and formed a unified block which...
Konrad Lorenz (1903–89) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet. On Aggression , trans. M. Latzke (1966), 209 present-day civilized man discharge of his aggressive drive Historians will have to face...
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...appropriate title of ‘agnostic’ ‘Agnosticism’ (1889). In Collected Essays (1894), Vol. 5 , 239 title of ‘ agnostic ’ I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a...
Punctuality Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...Punctuality see also Waiting The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. G. K. Chesterton 1874 – 1936 English essayist , novelist , and poet Tremendous Trifles (1909) ‘The Prehistoric Railway Station’ Recollect that painting and punctuality mix like oil and vinegar, and that genius and regularity are utter enemies, and must be to the end of time. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 88 English painter letter to the Hon. Edward Stratford, 1 May 1772 L'exactitude est la politesse des rois. Punctuality is...
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...long enough to draw on the ceiling. Tremendous Trifles (1909) ‘On Lying in Bed’ Lying in bed would be coloured pencil long enough draw on the ceiling The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. Tremendous Trifles (1909) ‘The Prehistoric Railway Station’ Fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the...
