Simon Newcomb quotes - page 2

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. (Simon Newcomb)
Is the Airship Possible? That depends, first of all, on whether we are to make the requisite scientific discoveries... the construction of an aerial vehicle ... which could carry even a single man from place-to-place at pleasure requires the discovery of some new metal or some new force. View quote
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. View quote
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In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. View quote
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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 pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. View quote
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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. View quote
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The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be. View quote
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James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work. View quote
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A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. View quote
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I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. View quote
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Simon Newcomb

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Occupation: Canadian Mathematician
Born: March 12, 1835
Died: July 11, 1909
Quotes count: 35
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