Canadian Historian Quotes

William Hardy McNeill
Timothy Brook
Margaret MacMillan
William Francis Ganong

Before the eighteenth century the demographic impact of the profession of medicine remained negligible. Relatively few persons could afford to pay a doctor for his often very expensive services; and for every case in which the doctor's attendance really made a difference between life and death, there were other instances in which even the best available professional services made little difference to the course of the disease, or actually hindered recovery.... Only with the eighteenth century did the situation begin to change; and it was not until after 1850 or so that the practice of medicine and the organization of medical services begin to make large-scale differences in human survival rates and population growth.

William Hardy McNeill
William Hardy McNeill
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan
Gareth Morgan is best known as the creator of the concept of 'organisational metaphors' as a management tool. His greatest insight has been to determine that, while there is no one model of organisation that can entirely capture the essence of organisation, it is possible by means of metaphors to look at organisations from different angles and see different facets

At a time when even the most impoverished and underdeveloped states in the third world enjoy full sovereignty, Ukraine has practically none. This great discrepancy is a historical puzzle, one that calls for an examination of the often overlooked and even more frequently misunderstood past of Ukraine and the Ukrainians.

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought.

Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook
Nineteen forty-five marked the nadir of Western Civilization.

The evidence seems to show beyond question that our present species of plants have descended by gradual evolution from simpler and fewer species which formerly existed, and which in turn were evolved from still simpler and fewer kinds - back, it is possible, to a single kind which throve in remotest antiquity.

William Francis Ganong
William Francis Ganong
I knew a mathematician who said, "I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age."

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

No matter how much we had talked about rejecting money, business suits, and consumerism when we were seventeen, virtually all of us had immersed ourselves in such waters by the time we reached the age of twenty-five. A combination of cynicism, 'sensibleness,' and disillusionment conspired to relieve us of our collective dreams of living in some new and different, better world. Instead, we wound up inheriting the very world we had initially refused as corrupt, immoral, insane.