Timeline

by Michael Crichton

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.

“Risk everything, or gain nothing.” GEOFFREY DE CHARNY, 1358

“A theory is only valuable if it has the ability to predict future outcomes. But history is the record of human action—and no theory can predict human action.”

“Nothing in the world is as certain as death.” JEAN FROISSART, 1359