英国历史学家屈维廉针对“历史是一门不折不扣的科学”,撰文说:“把历史等同于自然科学的做法,在过去三十年里错误地引导了历史学家离开了他们的正确道路。不把历史当作一个故事,而是当做一个科学,是如此严重地忽视了归根结底是历史学家主要技能的东西——叙述的艺术……就历史 The British historian Qu Wei Lian pointed out that “history is an absolute science,” and the article states: "To equate history with the natural sciences has mistakenly led historians to leave their correctness for the past three decades. The road, not to regard history as a story, but as a science, to so seriously neglect the ultimate skill of historians, the art of narration ...