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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science a

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

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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. – Paul Wolfowitz

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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. – E. T. Bell

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. – Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905

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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. – Edmund Husserl

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