Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sor…

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe…

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologi…

- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.