“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.” LifeArtIdeasPhilosophySeemsBeliefHistoryEventsDesignBearsElementsTragedyRelationSimplicityInherentBizarreGrandeurBewilderedPreconceived Ideas Book:The Holy Terrors Source: The Holy Terrors
“Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible.” IfsFirstsHumansPersonsMadeTwoFactsEarthSciencePrinciplesHistoryVirtueRocksEventsDependsMarkHistoricalWork OutLatterWetPlatesClaySequenceSuccessionCrossingsExaminingPredecessorsIrreversibleChronologyScribes Author:M. King Hubbert
“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.” InspirationalMotivationalCausesInterestingHistoryEvents Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero