Author: Samuel E. Morison

Quotes

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

- Samuel E. Morison

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

- Samuel E. Morison

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

- Samuel E. Morison

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

- Samuel E. Morison

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