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Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under… — Richard Dawkins
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they… — John Dryden
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. — Konrad Lorenz
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism… — Robert Harris
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable,… — Paul Johnson
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most… — Paul Johnson
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong. — Thomas P.M. Barnett
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the… — Rick Atkinson
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang… — F. Sionil Jose
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of… — Richard Dawkins
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O.… — Gary Krist
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there… — David Christian
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. — David Christian
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to… — Simon Schama
The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost… — Kevin Brownlow
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally… — Eric Kandel
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research… — Jill Lepore

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