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)

“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)