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Is history a science? History and science are thought to be to completely different areas of knowledge and that there is no similarity between them whatsoever, however that is not true in many cases, as seen in the extract Is history a science from The Nature of History by Arthur Marwick. Marwick first states that there is no similarity between the scientist's methods and the historian's intuition, yet there is a similarity. For instance, a scientist will develop an intuition and this intuition he/she will choose to conduct a certain type of experiment and not another, and if that experiment does not work he/she will look for a new experiment. In the same way a historians intuition could suggest certain probable connections in history and with his/her intuition they will attempt to establish the probability of the existence of such a relationship or it will cause the historian...

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