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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1157027" data-attributes="member: 158">Great point; perception is (almost) everything. How I perceive an event affects the choices I make know, and the assumptions I make.The reason I know there were very few women warriors, or that millions of people were murdered in World War II, is from the data I have. The thing is, with a certain amount of knowledge, there comes a certain amount of assuredness, and too much assurance leads to arrogance. Where a historian must take note, just like the scientist, is that theories are MEANT to be broken. Most scientists I have ever met accept this as the most fundamental law; theories are made to be changed or even discarded. If someone proves Einstein wrong with repeatable experimental data tomorrow, then most scientists would get over their shock shortly, and take the new info into account.Many historians I studied under (for the brief time I was a history major) would have been flabbergasted had you introduced evidence that an entire branch of history is wrong. History, because of the cultural and emotional ties bound within it, is much harder to throw out or amend than Chemical or Physical Theory. Humans need to constantly remind themselves that THEORIES are made to be broken, and prevent theory from becoming fact.</blockquote>