Quotes About History

Tomoe Gozen was among the rarest of historical figures, a woman samurai,

History shows us clearly that science does not provide certainty. It does not provide proof. It only provides the consensus of experts, based on the organized accumulation and scrutiny of evidence.

But the construction of a revisionist history of DDT gives the game away, because it came so long after the science was settled, far too long to argue that scientists had not come to agreement, that there was still a real scientific debate. The game here, as before, was to defend an extreme free market ideology. But in this case, they didn't just deny the facts of science. They denied the facts of history.

Many years later, the right wing continued to lambast Sagan well after the man was dead, while Seitz's attack on nuclear winter was reprised by Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s and by novelist Michael Crichton in the 2000s.110 What was going on? The answer is that the right-wing turn against science had begun.

How are we to evaluate the truth claims of science when we know that these claims may in the future be overturned? Elsewhere I have called this problem the instability of scientific truth.16 In the 1980s, philosopher Larry Laudan called it the pessimistic meta-induction of the history of science.17 He observed (as have many others) that the history of science offers many examples of scientific "truths" that were later viewed as misconceptions

What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history--all that human beings sacrifice and endure, overcome and rejoice over--if we do not remember? What point are the centuries, years, months, hours, minutes, if they slip through our fingers, if we learn nothing?

Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.

History is a myth men want to believe.

My son should often read and meditate on history; it is the only real philosophy

Czar Alexander is my baby daddy.

History is a series of lies on which we agree.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.

Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.

France will always be a great nation.

My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.

Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.

Perfidious Albion.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre 's work will endure.