Author: Samuel E. Morison

Quotes

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

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

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

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