A history that broadens the horizons of mankind.

 A history that broadens the horizons of mankind. 

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The knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless.


The knowledge that has changed behaviour is soon deprecated.


The more data we have, the better we understand history, the faster it changes its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes obsolete. The amount of knowledge today is growing at a furious pace, and in theory, humans should understand the world better and better. But the opposite is happening. Newly discovered knowledge drives faster economic, social and political change.


People speed up their accumulation of knowledge to understand what's happening, and that leads to even more rapid upheaval. As a result, they become increasingly incapable of understanding the present or predicting the future.


Predicting the future in the past has been relatively easy, but it is impossible to know what a future prediction in the present will look like.


It is difficult to say what kind of political system, job market, or body people will have.



Why study history if history does not obey immutable laws and if its future course cannot be predicted?


The main goal of science often seems like predicting the future. But science is not just about predicting the future.


Scientists in all fields seek to broaden our horizons and thereby open up a new unknown future before us.


The greatest goal of history is to make us aware of possibilities that we normally do not consider.


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'The situation we are in is neither fate nor eternal. There were times when it was different from now. A series of coincidences have only created the injustice we know today. If we act wisely, we can change the world and create a better world.'


The study of the past is not to perpetuate it, but to be liberated from it.

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