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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
- Habit
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Graduation
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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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
- Experiment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020