History is the study of the past, specifically how it relates to humans. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about these events. Science is the concerted human effort to understand the history of the natural world and how the natural world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding. The most striking difference between history and natural science is the degree to which proof can be established of the various contentions made by the scientist and the historian respectively.
History is not science because the answer seems self-evident. When scientists conduct their research, they are accompanied by laws of the scientific method. Progress in science rests on systematic testing, observation, and measurement of occurrence, normally requiring that results can be repeated if experiments are carried out with the same conditions. Whereas, historians are always necessarily dealing with incomplete information.
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