Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts. — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
