Accidents Quote by George Sarton

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it…

— Henry Steele Commager

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

— Ludwig von Mises

“I taught you that there is never any end to that question, because, as I once defined it for you (yes, I confess a…

— Graham Swift

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Spontaneous order is self-contradictory. Spontaneity connotes the ebullition of surprises. It is highly entropic and disorderly. It is entrepreneurial and complex. Order connotes predictability…

— George Gilder

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

— Lord Acton

... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in…

— Reginald Fessenden

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy.…

— Stephen Fry

“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which…

— Ludwik Fleck

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has…

— Avicenna

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains…

— Paul Valery