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After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
Michelle Moran
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
A. J. P. Taylor
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
George Santayana
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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
George Santayana
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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.
Noam Chomsky
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The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Coconut oil has been described as the World's Healthiest Dietary Oil. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact
Bruce Fife
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Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.
George Henry Lewes
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When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis Sullivan
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If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude that the sepulcher of Joseph of Arimathea, in which Jesus was buried, was actually empty on the morning of the first Easter. And no shred of evidence has yet been discovered in literary sources, epigraphy, or archaeology that would disprove this statement.
Paul L. Maier
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The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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It certainly feels to me that we are discovering something real in physics, something that is what it is without any regard to the social and historical conditions that allowed us to discover it.
Steven Weinberg
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The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.
Clement Greenberg
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There is but one way to understand the continuous growth of the human mind and to gain a firm grasp of what it has achieved in any department of knowledge - that is to watch its historical development.
Max Müller
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Mathematizing may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalizations.
Hermann Weyl
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
Sarah Vowell
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The evolution of science is not a movement in an intellectual vacuum; rather it is both an expression and a driving force of the historical process.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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Harlem is the black world's key community for historical, political, economic, cultural and/or ethnic reasons.
Harold Cruse
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The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
Paul de Man
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Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.
Joyce Carol Oates
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How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships?... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
Allan Sekula
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The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.
Susan Sontag
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If you can't have an experiment, do the best you can with whatever data you can gather, but do be very skeptical of historical data and subject them to all the logical tests you can think of.
Robert Hooke (mathematician)
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
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