Reduced Representation Quotes by Samuel E. Morison

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• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted…
• Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have…
• 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…
• Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side…
• Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor…

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