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James Harvey Robinson
(29 Jun 1863 - 16 Feb 1936)
American who reshaped the practice of writing history to be more comprehensive than the old focus on political and military events. He modernized the approach to more comprehensively provide the setting with other disciplines, including social sciences, anthropology, sociology and psychology. He published The New History in 1912.
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Science Quotes by James Harvey Robinson (2 quotes)
It may well be that men of science, not kings, or warriors, or even statesmen are to be the heroes of the future.
— James Harvey Robinson
With co-author Charles Austin Beard in The Development of Modern Europe (1908), 421.
We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
— James Harvey Robinson
The Mind in the Making
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
