Quote by Simon Newcomb
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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Science
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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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Graduation
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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 walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme. – Simon Newcomb

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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isnt as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. – Carla Bley

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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. – Vladimir Nabokov

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If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So thats what I did. – Steve Guttenberg

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Give your stress wings and let it fly away. – Terri Guillemets

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. – Rumi

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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family. – Martin Scorsese

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