Achievement Quote by James Henry Breasted

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of…

— Amelia B. Edwards

“The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of…

— Michael Dirda

“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and…

— David McCullough

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization…

— Anonymous

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

— Karl Popper

“The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by…

— John Barrow

History is the science of people.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use…

— Polykarp Kusch

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume