A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a… — Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne Copy Share Image
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
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