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28 quotes by Simon Newcomb

Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.
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Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth... →

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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... →

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

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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

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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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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... →

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