The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry. — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
