Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. . . . Those who
cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
The Life of Reason (1905)

Study the past if you would divine the future.
Confucius

The only thing new in this world is the history you don't know.
Harry S. Truman

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
Friedrich Schlegel
Athenaeum

History, by apprising [people] of the past, will enable them to judge the future.
Thomas Jefferson

[L]eaders of large enterprises sometimes find it difficult to relate their way of working to the experiences and needs of others. But . . . many large-scale endeavors
of the past and present are open to the responsible scholar.We in NASA would welcome such research. Indeed,we feel a responsibility to give as much assistance
to the inquiring scholar as possible.
James E. Webb
Space Age Management (1969)