The historian does not locate known facts in a…

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation…

— Oliver Stone

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…

— Kevin Young

In a business that's driven purely by economics, the fact that one or two unique shows happen to get on and reach a public…

— Mark Frost

“If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he is doing…

— Eric John

“Arthur shook his head. "You'd be an appalling mother, Morgana. You're a terrible example, you know," he said, handing her the bottle. "God help…

— FayJay

If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe.…

— James Arthur

The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well…

— Oliver D. Crisp

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever…

— Mary Roach

When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve…

— Talal Asad

“Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood”

— Alan Ball

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

— Alan Moore

I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You just watch…

— Emma Forrest

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more…

— Kary Mullis