History Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim

“Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.”

— Gary Hopkins

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

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

“The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

“There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you’ll learn in time...' 'Fuck that, man. That’s…

— D.L. Christopher

“scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the…

— John Polkinghorne

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler