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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the… — Michael Shermer
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of… — Antonin Scalia
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire… — Dan Barker
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention… — Howard Zinn
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann
You accept the historical Jesus? — Albert Einstein
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.… — H.G. Wells
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally… — Robert Wright
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain… — Victor Cousin
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical… — Justus von Liebig
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Unknown Author
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to… — Hilary Putnam
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a… — David Trimble
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and… — Rei Kawakubo
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations… — Vladimir Putin
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for… — Don Kates

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