If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force.… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
