“It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent.” Has BeensSaidCausesPartyMoralGenerationsJudgingProudBeatsStandingRewardsInnocentLiftsFallenSatireHistorianExposureInjuredRivalryIndignationVerdictAvengersMoral IndignationUnrighteousness Author:Herbert Butterfield
“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.” IfsWritingHas BeensStoriesPastScienceCertainSidesPrinciplesHistorySuccessfulProgressProduceRevolutionPraiseTendenciesInterpretationHistorianProtestantsGlorification Book:The Whig interpretation of history Source: The Whig interpretation of history
“Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.” YearsMindHumansHas BeensCharacterProblemSeemsLastsIntellectualHundredConsequenceOvercomingHuman MindFifteenScopeMost AmazingHurdle Book:The Origins of Modern Science Source: The Origins of Modern Science
