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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to be

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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