My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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