"The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history."

--

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

Ariel Durant

#Science Quotes #Law Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.”
“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. I speak like my mom. I speak like the whitest white dude. I speak like a "Def Comedy Jam" comedian doing an impression of a white guy.”
“Time had changed the magical to mundane”
“[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.”
“Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.”
“Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.”
“We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.”

Source : "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

You may also like:

Barbara Mertz
Author
Barbara Tuchman
Historian
Harold Nicolson
Diplomat
Iris Chang
Historian
Jerry Weintraub
Film Producer
Rose Wilder Lane
Journalist
Stephen Ambrose
Historian
Vita Sackville-West
Author
Will Durant
Writer