KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Simon Newcomb Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Simon Newcomb

Showing 11-20 of 28 Quotes by Simon Newcomb

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.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

~Simon Newcomb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Mathematician

Born: March 12th, 1835

Died: July 11th, 1909

Links

Find Simon Newcomb on Amazon

Related Authors

Archimedes
Charles Babbage
Rene Descartes
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Isaac Newton
Pythagoras
Alan Turing
Alfred North Whitehead

Popular Authors

Nuno Bettencourt Joyce Brothers Julius Caesar Joseph Campbell Travis Scott Dr. Seuss Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Walt Whitman

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1809 - Felix Mendelssohn

1811 - Horace Greeley

1816 - Frederick William Robertson

1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell

1826 - Walter Bagehot

1874 - Gertrude Stein

1887 - Georg Trakl

1890 - Larry Macphail

1894 - Norman Rockwell

1898 - Alvar Aalto

Birthdays on February 3rd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Friendship Legal Love Motivational Politics Society Space Sports