The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.