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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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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."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."
"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."
"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."
"My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
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