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Simon Newcomb

"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."

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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

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"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."

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"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

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"Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants."

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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."
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"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."
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"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
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"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
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"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."
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