Simon Newcomb Quotes

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• So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in…
• Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
• Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace,…
• What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be…
• When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I…
• One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases
• Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even…
• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
• Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed…
• The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine…
• The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like…
• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
• A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
• Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense…
• In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin…

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