Marc Bloch Quotes

#1. Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,

Clive James

#2. The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

Marc Bloch

#3. Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?"
"Especially those." said Joy.

Alethea Kontis

#4. A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.

Michelle Franklin

#5. With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.

Richard Dawkins

#6. It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

Bethany Hamilton

#7. Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

Robin Skelton

#8. History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Marc Bloch

#9. The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Marc Bloch

#10. Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. I think my sound is post-Internet.

Grimes

#12. When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

Zoe McLellan

#13. The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.

Marc Bloch

#14. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Daniel Webster

#15. Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

Willie Nelson

#16. Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Marc Bloch

#17. I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Julie Taymor

#19. Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

Richard Stallman

#20. Punch any of mine, and I'll break your arm off and beat you to death with it.

Ilona Andrews

#21. The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Marc Bloch

#22. But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Marc Bloch

#23. The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Marc Bloch