“ People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science. Adolf Von Harnack Historian
“ What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades. Adolf Bastian
“ If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero. A. J. P. Taylor Historian
“ From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Aldous Huxley Writer
“ History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. Allan Nevins Historian
“ History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. Andrew Marr Journalist