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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the...
#Samuel E Morison
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it...
#Samuel E Morison
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall...
#Samuel E Morison
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were...
#Samuel E Morison
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate...
#Samuel E Morison
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy...
#Samuel E Morison
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...
#Historians
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of...
#Samuel E Morison
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling...
#Samuel E Morison
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make...
#Samuel E Morison
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
#Samuel E Morison
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
#Samuel E Morison
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
#Samuel E Morison
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
#Samuel E Morison
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He...
#Samuel E Morison
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants,...
#Samuel E Morison