A Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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History Repeats Science

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian - Scientist
Born: 1970

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

David Levithan

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

G. M. Trevelyan

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

G. M. Trevelyan

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Ray Bradbury

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

Ray Bradbury

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

Karl Marx

History repeats herself.

Jennifer Stone

History repeats itself.

George Eliot

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.