Niall Ferguson Quotes

Historians Are Not Scientists. They Cannot (and Should Not Even Trying To) Establish Universal Laws Of Social Or Political "physics" With Reliable Predictive Powers. Why? Because There Is No Possibility Of Repeating The Single, Multi-millennium Experiment That Constant To The Past. The Sample Size Of Human History Is One.

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