Again and again Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Many historians will tell you that there are no laws of history and no great cycles that govern human events. History often appears more…

— David Olusoga

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting…

— Bernhard von Cotta

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency…

— Jim Butcher

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that…

— Charles Darwin

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

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and…

— Nikola Tesla

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

History is the science of what never happens twice.

— Paul Valery

History repeats, but science reverberates.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

— Stephen Jay Gould