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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a…
• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . 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.

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