Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall...#Samuel E Morison
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it...#Samuel E Morison
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the...#Samuel E Morison
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy...#Samuel E Morison
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate...#Samuel E Morison
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were...#Samuel E Morison
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make...#Samuel E Morison
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling...#Samuel E Morison
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of...#Samuel E Morison
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...#Historians
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants,...#Samuel E Morison
