Quote by Simon Newcomb
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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

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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. – Simon Newcomb

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But the love of adventure was in fathers blood. – Buffalo Bill

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Although my dad was a doctor, we werent necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians. – Lisa Loeb

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When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. Hed use his right hand, so Id have to use my left. – Joe Frazier

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My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. Thats the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads. – Boomer Esiason

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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. – Lester B. Pearson

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not. – Dweezil Zappa

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Alone Im nothing. – Robert Plant

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