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“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin

“Writing a history of the world is a ridiculous thing to do. The amount of information is too vast for any individual to absorb,…

— Andrew Marr

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…

— Marc Bloch

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the…

— James Harvey Robinson

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the…

— Plutarch

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

— Ken Burns

All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks…

— J. A. Spender