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

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. – Simon Newcomb
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. – Simon Newcomb
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
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. – Simon Newcomb
Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him – that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what thats going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesnt prepare you. – Richie Sambora