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A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

— John Maynard Smith

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly…

— Maimonides

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and…

— Carroll Quigley