After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. . . . He had … - Henry Adams

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Henry Adams

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.

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