Simon Newcomb

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. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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

— Simon Newcomb

#during #father #followed #his #life

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

— Simon Newcomb

#dispassionate #father #men #most #rational

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

— Simon Newcomb

#experiment #field #first #psychology #scientific

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. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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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. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#american revolution #claim #concerned #condition #economic

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. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#bryan #county #family #fifteen #found

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #civil #civil war #development #direction

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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