Ambiguous Quote by Johann Gustav Droysen

History is as much an art as a science.

— Ernest Renan

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

— Phyllis McGinley

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

— Anonymous

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along…

— Bertolt Brecht

You could say science also is an art.

— Freeman Dyson

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

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

— Stanislaw Lem

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the…

— John William Draper

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

— Ray Bradbury