Henry Adams

Person · Open Library

Born

1838

Died

1918

Works

207

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Canada

Active from

1959-11-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

202

Total plays

1,559

Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best-known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Henry+Adams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

   · 2010 · cited 23,577x

2. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,494x

3. <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software

   · 2007 · cited 20,209x

4. The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis

   · 1998 · cited 19,817x

5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,984x

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Quotes

• “A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.”
• “I disagree with my brother Charles and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. These facts have nothing to do with the case and should not have been allowed to interfere with just penalties. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.”
• “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 he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.”
• “I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.”
• “For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good.”
• “Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Henry

Family name

Adams

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Gosport

Place of death

Gosport

Sibling

Arthur Adams

Field of work

conchology

Image

Henry Adams1813-1877.jpg

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