Author: Samuel E. Morison

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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