Warsaw University of Technology - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the “anticipation of Nature.””
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)