Frases de J. B. Bury

John Bagnell Bury fue un historiador y filólogo británico-irlandés, autoridad en estudios clásicos y Bizancio. Suele ser citado como J. B. Bury.

Fue educado inicialmente por su padre, rector de la Iglesia de Irlanda . Entró en el Foyle College y posteriormente en el Trinity College , donde se graduó en 1882. En el mismo Trinity obtuvo plaza de fellow en 1885, con 24 años; y la cátedra de Historia Moderna, que mantuvo por nueve años. En 1898 fue nombrado Regius Professor de griego en la misma institución, cargo que ejerció simultáneamente a la cátedra de historia.[1]​ En 1902 se trasladó a la Universidad de Cambridge, donde ocupó la plaza de Regius Professor de Historia Moderna.

En Cambridge, Bury fue el mentor del gran medievalista sir Steven Runciman, quien más tarde comentó haber sido «el primer y único estudiante de Bury»". Al principio, Bury, de carácter huraño, trataba de rechazarle, pero al mencionar Runciman que podía leer ruso, Bury le proporcionó una pila de artículos búlgaros para editar; y esa fue la manera en que comenzó su fructífera relación.

A la edad de 65 años se trasladó a Roma, donde murió. Fue enterrado en el cementerio protestante de esa ciudad. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. octubre 1861 – 1. junio 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)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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 libro 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)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

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