Cases Quote by Richard Lewontin

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

— Will Durant

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

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

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

— Maurice Allais

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

“As philosopher Brian Keeley has pointed out, by weaving every niggling anomaly into a grand unifying theory, conspiracy theories can look stronger than the…

— Rob Brotherton

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that.…

— Agatha Christie

“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of…

— Robert Silverberg

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem…

— Paul Johnson