“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”– Lech Walesa Related Quotes “The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”– Edwin Powell Hubble “As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.”– Hillary Clinton “When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”– Joseph Gordon-Levitt