Simon Newcomb Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

  Simon Newcomb

  Beautiful, Science, Physics

• If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

  Simon Newcomb

  Education, Cutting, Science

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

• We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

  Simon Newcomb

  Knowledge, Science, Limits

• 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

  Knowledge, Science, Simple

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

  Simon Newcomb

  Science, Men, Class

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