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"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."
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"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."
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"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
"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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