What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

The body may be weak, but the spirit within sustain the soul.

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

See, they say it’s ‘survival of the fittest’, but you and I really know that it’s ‘survival of the most heavily armed

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.