Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.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.
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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
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.
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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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