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“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

— Monica Lewinsky

“And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of…

— Claude Picasso

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did…

— Douglas Adams

“He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability,…

— Shirley Jackson

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“The argument is that we are influenced by historical research.” Michael Simpson glanced over at Sophie before continuing. “When one commences an education, to…

— Erik Hamre