There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

My friends, this body – perhaps more than any other gathering in human history – now faces that difficult task.