Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast. For, we are assured, it is well known that in the natural sciences we start from observation and proceed by induction to theory. And is it not obvious that in history we proceed very differently? Yes, I agree that we proceed very differently. But we do so in the natural sciences as well.
Karl PopperIf you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.
Karl PopperThere is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
Karl PopperNo book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
Karl Popper