Newcomb Quotes
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Newcomb Quotes & Sayings
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A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
— Thomas Merton
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
— Simon Newcomb
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
— Adrienne Monnier
I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.
— Khloe Kardashian
I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.
— Simon Newcomb
For every rod of wet bamboo upon the student's back, the teacher deserves two.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.
— Simon Newcomb
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.
— Simon Newcomb
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
— Simon Newcomb
We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch.
— Charles Newcomb Baxter
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases
— Simon Newcomb
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
— Simon Newcomb
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
— Martha Stewart
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
— Simon Newcomb
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
— Simon Newcomb
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
— Simon Newcomb