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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupa

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

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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. – Simon Newcomb

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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. – Simon Newcomb

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That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer. – Peter Bichsel

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