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Simon Newcomb has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so…
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
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In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the…
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As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a…
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The…
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
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In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
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One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom…
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The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
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One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are…
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked…
— Bertrand Russell
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The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
— Saint Basil
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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,…
— Albert Camus
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to…
— Saint Augustine
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Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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