In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian… — 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
