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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams
Inspirational, Moving On, Science
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 6 (1907)

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams
Suicide, Science, Race
"The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892".

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams
Witty, Science, Political Will
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

Henry Adams
Science, Technology, Energy
Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.424, Harvard University Press

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction.

Henry Adams
Science, Moon, Squares

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

Henry Adams
Women, Science, Isis
Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

Henry Adams
Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

Henry Adams
Children, Science, Play
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1699, Open Road Media

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