People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it. - Michael Crichton

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

He had only imagined a slower fighting style from an unconscious assumption that man in the past were weaker or slower or less imaginative than he was, as a modern man.
Marek knew this assumption of superiority was a difficulty faced by every historian. He just hadn’t thought he was guilty of it.
But clearly, he was.