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)

“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)