The historian must have a kind of faith that humanity will not and cannot perish.
We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The spread of liberal democracy has been accompanied by the spread of a global culture that is increasingly homogeneous.