“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.Quote by Samuel E MorisonTopics: Quotes about Samuel E MorisonShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall...#Samuel E Morison
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make...#Samuel E Morison
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were...#Samuel E Morison
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it...#Samuel E Morison
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants,...#Samuel E Morison
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling...#Samuel E Morison
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.#Samuel E Morison
