The Education of Henry Adams
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2009-07-11
- Publisher
- ignacio hills press (TM) IgnacioHillsPress.com and e-Pulp Adventures (TM)
- Retrieved
- Aug 30, 2011
2 memes from this reference
A Cute Description of Langley
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…
Political, Social, and Scientific Values Should be Mathematically Quantifiable
[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…