Evidence Quote by Zahi Hawass

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in…

— Igor Stravinsky

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

— Ken Burns

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not…

— Alice Roberts

Only those who have studied the past can create history in the present; can predict the future. Such history should be science-based fact.

— M. K. Stalin

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

— M. King Hubbert

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

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

— Michael Rostovtzeff

“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is…

— Ron Rash