“Architecture is not a science. It is a great historical procession. It is an art, a game of forms and volumes.”— Alvar Aalto
“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”— Jean Piaget
“The great lesson of history is, that all successful institutions are the result of growth, and not of manufacture.”— Francis Bowen
“Social science is a single science. What is called sociology, what is called history, are two faces of the same coin.”— Fernand Braudel
“Electric Avenue is a real street. It was the first street to be lit by electricity in London, and it's in Brixton, a black community.”— Eddy Grant
“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery.”— Kwame Nkrumah
“I've always been interested in the way music reflects the times in which it's created.”— Michael Tilson Thomas
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”— Chinua Achebe
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”— Chinua Achebe
“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”— Chinua Achebe
“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”— Howard Aiken