The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. - Lytton Strachey
History is barbaric to me because it omits all traces of the personal. - Marty Rubin
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God. - Johnny Hart