Here is Where Quotes

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes penned the majority opinion, which included these immortal words: It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.… Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“Among those exiled was Mary Dyer, an early heroine in the battle for religious freedom. (The correct spelling of her last name is somewhat elusive; Dyre, Dyer, and Dyar all appear on contemporaneous documents.) Today, a statue honoring Dyer stands in Boston, where she died. But there is no tribute or memorial to her of any kind in Newport, where she lived.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“At its best, history nurtures within us humility and gratitude. It encourages respect and empathy. It fosters creativity and stimulates the imagination. It inspires resilience. And it does so by illuminating the simple truth that, whether due to some cosmic fluke or divine providence, it’s an absolute miracle that any one of us is alive today, walking around on this tiny sphere surrounded by an ocean of space, and that we are, above everything else, all in this together.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny.… ”

—Author and former biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov”
― Andrew Carroll, Here is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. —From “On Listening to Lectures” by Plutarch”
― Andrew Carroll, Here is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“Progressives, it’s true, admirably supported suffrage, ended child labor, and enacted other necessary reforms, but it’s also undeniable that many embraced eugenics as a potential cure-all for a host of social ills.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“His theories fit comfortably with early-twentieth-century American Progressivism, which had a borderline obsession with moral and physical cleanliness.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“two decades later the Rockefeller Foundation helped establish the Berlin-based Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“The Carnegie Institution funded a Long Island laboratory in 1904 that began keeping tabs on the physical traits of half a million American citizens”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler used his paper as a megaphone to promote eugenics, and universities such as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard bestowed their academic credibility to the cause.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“We have to assume that the people whose dwelling-places, artefacts, lives even, we are dealing with were rational, integrated, sane and sensible human beings. Then we look around at our own contemporaries and wonder how this belief can possibly be sustained.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

“soporific.”
― Andrew Carroll, Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History