Quotes by : Simon Newcomb

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on....

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective....

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance....

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

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned,....

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed....

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