We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.