We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings andor morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The result is folk religion rather than classical, historical Christianity which has always included sound theology.
One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that Islam is all about peace or whether its people saying that Islam is all about Jihad and all about suicide bombs. People will make statements which don't seem to be backed up by any sort of historical context.
Idleness only leads to bad deeds
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
I just love historical fiction.
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E. L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.