Simon Newcomb Quotes & Sayings
28 most famous Simon Newcomb quotes and sayings (mathematician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.”
“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.”
“Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.”
“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”
“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 of relief accompanies the disappointment.”
“Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”
“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”
“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.”
“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”
“My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.”
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