Yukon/history

Famous quotes containing the words yukon and/or history:

“Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)