Adversity Quote by Simon Newcomb

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who…

— Simon Newcomb

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

— Simon Newcomb

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

— 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…

— Simon Newcomb

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of…

— Simon Newcomb

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

— Simon Newcomb

Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force.…

— Simon Newcomb

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of…

— Simon Newcomb

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the…

— Simon Newcomb

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

— Simon Newcomb

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as…

— Simon Newcomb

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of…

— Simon Newcomb