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Samuel E Morison

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian’s mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

– Samuel E Morison

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.

– Samuel E Morison

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.

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

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

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

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

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

– Samuel E Morison

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.

– Samuel E Morison

Samuel E Morison

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

– Samuel E Morison

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