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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
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"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
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"Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine."
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"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."
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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."
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"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
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"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
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"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."
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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."
Name
"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."
History
"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."
Family
"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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"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."
Men
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
America
"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."
School
"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."
Existence
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