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Eclipse Quotes by Simon Newcomb
- In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
- 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…
- Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
- 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…
More Eclipse Quotes
- All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and… — John Dewey
- If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and… — Immanuel Kant
- Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the… — Baron de Montesquieu
- There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding
- Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to… — Henri Poincare
- Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the… — Billy Graham
- I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse… — Jack Handey