Cosmology Quote by Steven J. Dick

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as…

— Ludmilla Jordanova

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

— Carl L. Becker

“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or…

— Paul Ham

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

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

— Will Durant

“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very…

— Henry Louis Gates

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.

— Anthony Storr

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

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