Bases Quote by Jean Monnet

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

— Henri Poincare

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

— Anonymous

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”

— Stacy Schiff

“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

— Will Durant

One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their…

— John Silber

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

— Clint Eastwood

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

— David Frum