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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

— Jared Diamond

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

History is as much an art as a science.

— Ernest Renan

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury

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

— Phyllis McGinley

History is and should be a science.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to…

— Edward Augustus Freeman

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

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

— Paul Lauterbur

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

History is the science of people.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset