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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
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| The great contribution Archeology has ever provided society is the simple fact that everybody is destined to become a feature. |
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On being an
Archeologist: Paul Bahn |
I would sum up
my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that
everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever
going to happen again...the future is just going to be a vast conforming
suburb of the soul.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Max Beerbohm |
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. Ruth Benedict |
| Past,n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. Ambrose Bierce |
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The best prophet of the future is the past. Lord George Gordon Byron |
| If anyone were
to ask me why I have spent my life studying prehistory, I would only say
that I have remained under a spell of a subject which seeks to discover
how we became human beings endowed with minds and souls before we had
learned to write. Grahame Clark |
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History is a vast early warning system. Norman Cousins |
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. Finley Peter Dunne |
| Civilization
Exists by geological consent, subject to change without any notice. Will Durant |
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To archeologists, the human past is owned by no one. It represents the cultural heritage of everyone who has ever lived on Earth or will live on it in the future. Archaeology puts all human societies on an equal footing. Brian Fagan |
| Culture is the
jam in the sandwich of anthropology. Robert Foley |
| Those who
would question the present should investigate the past. Those who do not
understand what is to come should look at what has gone before. The Guanzi |
| The past is a
foreign country: they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley |
| A generation
which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein |
| It's not what
you find, it's what you find out. David Hurst Thomas |
| Archaeology is
the search for fact. Not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Doctor
Tyree's Philosophy class is right down the hall. So forget any ideas
you've had about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We
do not follow maps to buried treasure and "X" never, ever, marks the spot.
Seventy percent of all archeology is done in the library. Research.
Reading. Indiana Jones |
| Anthropology
is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the
humanities. A.L. Kroeber |
| Archaeology is
fascinating to people when it is communicated to them in plain language. William H. Marquardt |
| The past is
still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Michael Ondaatje |
| Who controls
the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| Every journey
into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings
of the past. Adrienne Rich |
| For
four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. J. William Schopf |
| The only use
of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that
there is. It is a holy ground; for it is the past, and the future. Alfred North Whitehead |