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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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"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."

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"Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men."

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"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

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

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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."

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"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."

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

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

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

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"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."

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