Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines h… - Henry Brooks Adams

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

An artist, if good for anything, foresees what his public will see; and what his public will see is what he ought to have intended — the measure of his genius. If the public sees more than he himself did, this is his credit; if less, this is his fault. No matter how simple or ignorant we are, we ought to feel a discord or a harmony where the artist meant us to feel it, and when we see a motive, we conclude that other people have seen it before us, and that it must therefore have been intended.

There is nothing unscientific in the idea that, beyond the lines of force felt by the senses, the universe may be — as it has always been — either a supersensuous chaos or a divine unity, which irresistibly attracts, and is either life or death to penetrate. Thus far, religion, philosophy and science seem to go hand in hand. The schools begin their vital battle only there.

...the planet offers hardly a dozen places where an elderly man can pass a week alone without ennui, and none at all where he can pass a year.