Aspect Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

— Julian Jaynes

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

— Ludwig von Mises

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

— Carlton Cuse

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

— Stephen Hawking

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle