J. H. Hexter Quotes

If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

J. H. Hexter

Communication, Knowledge, Science

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Born: May 25, 1910
Died: December 8, 1996
Occupation: Historian
Cite this Page: Citation

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