Author: Samuel E. Morison

Quotes

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

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

- Samuel E. Morison

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

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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