Simon Newcomb Quotes

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions…
• We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
• One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple…
• My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
• In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a…
• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some…
• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the…
• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
• In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
• My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
• Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
• All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
• The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty…
• The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked…
• The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction…
• If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go…
• I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear…
• The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the…
• I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way…
• My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

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