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One Quotes by Simon Newcomb
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle