Chronology Quote by Ken Ham

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is…

— Barry Unsworth

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

— Deborah Harkness

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding,…

— Geraldine Brooks

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

— Robert Dallek

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

— Jonathon Keats

“Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will…

— Howard Markel

On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not…

— Thucydides