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Henry Adams Quotes:

Ocupation: Historian

Life: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

Birthday: February 16

Death: March 27

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

topic: Women, Science, Isis, Demeter, Cerebral, Aphrodite

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