Book Quote by William M. Fowler

“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

— Heath White

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

— Phyllis McGinley

History is as much an art as a science.

— Ernest Renan

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want…

— Questlove

More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean…

— Ronald Fisher

“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that we must…

— David C. Lindberg

“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours…

— Tom Lloyd

A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the…

— Marston Bates

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before…

— Lauren Willig

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury