Essex/history

Famous quotes containing the words essex and/or history:

    “Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.”
    —Harry Essex (b. 1910)

    “The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)