Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit. -- Tom Robbins

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to

mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference

between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep

or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses

his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past.

Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

-- Tom Robbins



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