Samuel E. Morison Quotes
- Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
- Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many…
- Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
- Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
- I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
- 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…
- Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was…
- 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…