Джон Багнелл Бьюри цитаты

Джон Багнелл Бьюри — ирландский историк, византинист, искусствовед-классик и филолог, изучавший преимущественно политическую и административную историю Византийской империи, которую он рассматривал исключительно как непосредственное продолжение Римской империи. Один из главных инициаторов возрождения интереса к истории Византии среди англоговорящих историков. Бьюри был одним из авторов 11-го издания Энциклопедии Британника , в 4-м томе которой ему посвящена статья. В 1911 г. под руководством Бьюри было начато издание «Кембриджской истории средних веков»; он же разработал план издания «Кембриджской истории древнего мира» . Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Октябрь 1861 – 1. Июнь 1927
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“But what assurance have we that they will not come up against impassable barriers?”

Introduction<!-- pp. 3-4 -->
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth (1921)
Контексте: Science has been advancing without interruption during the last three of four hundred years; every new discovery has led to new problems and new methods of solution, and opened up new fields for exploration. Hitherto men of science have not been compelled to halt, they have always found ways to advance further. But what assurance have we that they will not come up against impassable barriers?... Take biology or astronomy. How can we be sure that some day progress may not come to a dead pause, not because knowledge is exhausted, but because our resources for investigation are exhausted... It is an assumption, which cannot be verified, that we shall not reach a point in our knowledge of nature beyond which the human intellect is unqualified to pass.

“It is an assumption, which cannot be verified, that we shall not reach a point in our knowledge of nature beyond which the human intellect is unqualified to pass”

Introduction<!-- pp. 3-4 -->
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth (1921)
Контексте: Science has been advancing without interruption during the last three of four hundred years; every new discovery has led to new problems and new methods of solution, and opened up new fields for exploration. Hitherto men of science have not been compelled to halt, they have always found ways to advance further. But what assurance have we that they will not come up against impassable barriers?... Take biology or astronomy. How can we be sure that some day progress may not come to a dead pause, not because knowledge is exhausted, but because our resources for investigation are exhausted... It is an assumption, which cannot be verified, that we shall not reach a point in our knowledge of nature beyond which the human intellect is unqualified to pass.

“Socrates was the greatest of the educationalists”

J. B. Bury книга A History of Freedom of Thought

p. 30 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t71v5g25n;view=1up;seq=34
A History of Freedom of Thought (1913)
Контексте: Socrates was the greatest of the educationalists, but unlike the others he taught gratuitously, though he was a poor man. His teachings always took the form of discussion; the discussion often ended in no positive result, but had the effect of showing that some received opinion was untenable and the truth is difficult to ascertain.

“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock”

2nd ed. (1913), p. 683 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026609167;view=1up;seq=725
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1913)
Контексте: The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.