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Simon Newcomb
 
Date of birth: 12 March 1835
Date of death: 11 July 1909
Country Of Origin: Canada
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Astronomer

Mathematician

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. "

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" 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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" As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. "

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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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" Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" In 1854 I availed myself of my summer vacation to pay my first visit to the national capital, little dreaming that it would ever be my home. "

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" 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. "

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" In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America. "

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" In February, 1865, the observatory sustained the greatest loss it had ever suffered, in the sudden death of its superintendent. What it would have grown to had he lived it is useless to guess, but there is little doubt that its history would have been quite different from what it is. "

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