Samuel Eliot Morison Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976
Birthday: July 9
Death: May 15
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
source: The Oxford History of the American People ch. 2 (1965)
topic: Men, America, Years, Seamen
