Simon Newcomb Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.”

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

“The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.”

“In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.”

“My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.”

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

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

“As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.”