Art Quote by Phyllis McGinley

History is as much an art as a science.

— Ernest Renan

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury

History is and should be a science.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History is the science of people.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

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

— Margaret MacMillan

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

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

— Jared Diamond

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

— Lion Feuchtwanger