“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.Quote by Simon NewcombTopics: Quotes about Simon NewcombShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under...#Simon Newcomb
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.#Simon Newcomb
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college,...#Simon Newcomb
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics...#Simon Newcomb
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school...#Simon Newcomb
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement...#Simon Newcomb
