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Top 30 Simon Newcomb Quotes (2025 Update)

Simon Newcomb Quote: “Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.”

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

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.”

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

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.”

5. “Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.”

6. “Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.”

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

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.”

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

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

12. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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 of the river of that name.”

15. “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 of the river of that name.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.”

16. “All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.”

18. “The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”

19. “My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”

20. “When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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 walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.”

22. “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 walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”

23. “Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.”

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

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.”

27. “The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

28. “What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

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Simon Newcomb Quote: “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.”

29. “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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Simon Newcomb Quote: “One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”

30. “One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”

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