Conjecture Quote by Erika Swyler Download Open image ““The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”” — Erika Swyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conjecture Dirty Secret History History Conjecture Secret Secret History
“There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you’ll learn in time...' 'Fuck that, man. That’s… — D.L. Christopher Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Just because it’s the biggest secret in the history of the world doesn’t make it any less true.” — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.” — Aldo Schiavone Copy Share Image
“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past, I'm in… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“To think of the time I spend procuring books... How fitting: a book procured me. Utterly fantastic...” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“The roof is rotting. This is something I should have known to fix years ago, should have known needed maintaining, but no one told… — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“The trouble with Evangeline started long before Amos saw her in a lightening field. The trouble was that she’d been born.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“S- Some info on your names. What's with the paywall in this stuff? Should I be concerned you're looking into dead women? P.S. My… — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“She knows that her name will find its way into his speculations. So will his. Because there are things you do for people you've… — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“I turn on the computer to do a cursory search for Ryzhkova. The name pings back thousands of results. Shit. Of course it would… — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“He did not know what it meant to lie or that soon he would lie to the very woman teaching him the art of… — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Now Aristotle says that the judgment which follows knowledge is in truth faith. Accordingly, faith is something superior to knowledge, and is its criterion.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
“Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
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