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Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
#Simon Newcomb
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to...
#Simon Newcomb
I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one...
#Simon Newcomb
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of...
#Simon Newcomb
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and...
#Simon Newcomb
In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
#Simon Newcomb
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history...
#Simon Newcomb
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school...
#Simon Newcomb
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
#Simon Newcomb
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy,...
#Simon Newcomb
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former...
#Simon Newcomb
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse,...
#Simon Newcomb
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
#Simon Newcomb
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under...
#Simon Newcomb
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in...
#Simon Newcomb
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were...
#Simon Newcomb
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college,...
#Simon Newcomb
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have...
#Simon Newcomb
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