History Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

“History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than…

— Jules Verne

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.”

— Tony Moyle

“At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to…

— Hugh Howey

“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes…

— Charles Mackay

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable”

— Elizabeth Bear

“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.”

— James C. Malin

“The history of science may be described as the history of the attempts, and the failures, of men "to see things as they are."…

— M.M. Pattison Muir