Quotes Simon Newcomb

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis...

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professors...

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which me...

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is ...

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back...

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled h...

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insig...

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the st...

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as ...

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four year...

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill ...

In 1854 I availed myself of my summer vacation to pay my fir...

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Sci...

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British Am...

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greates...

In the latter part of 1869 I had carried forward the work wi...

In the summer of 1851, when I had passed the age of sixteen,...

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathema...

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious ...

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate o...

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was...

On the retirement of Admiral Sands in 1874, Admiral Davis re...

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look f...

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the na...

So far as the economic condition of society and the general ...