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I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  World , Against , Light , Standing


If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  Best , Men , Down , Genius


In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  School , University , Degree , Graduation


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

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  America , Sun , British , Eclipse


My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  Life , Father , Teacher , School


My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  Father , Men , Dad , Rational


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

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  First , Way , Economics , Psychology


Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  See , Speed , Fly , Bird


So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  Time , Thinking , Society , American


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.

Author: Simon Newcomb - Canadian Mathematician
  Me , Family , Beginning , Some


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