Langley seemed prepared for anything, even for an indeterminable number of universes interfused — physics stark mad in metaphysics. - Henry Adams

To his son Henry, the quality that distinguished his father from all the other figures in the family group, was that, in his opinion, Charles Francis Adams possessed the only perfectly balanced mind that ever existed in the name.

At last their universe had been wrecked by rays, and Karl Pearson undertook to cut the wreck loose with an axe, leaving science adrift on a sensual raft in the midst of a supersensual chaos.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.