Why study history?

Recently, I came across a short but interesting book:

Bailyn, Bernard. On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions. UPNE, 1994.

On page 12, there is an interesting discussion on why one should study history, both at the level of an individual and the collective. Below, I reproduce a paragraph related to this.

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G V Pavan Kumar

As a scientist, professor, writer & podcaster of physics & its history & philosophy......I am interested in the historical and philosophical evolution of ideas and tools in the physical sciences and technology. I research the intellectual history of past scientists, innovators, and people driven by curiosity, and I write about them from an Indian and Asian perspective. My motivation is to humanize science.

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