Simon Newcomb Quotes

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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• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
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• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
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• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
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• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
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• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
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• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Exhausted
  • Sooner

• Everything we earn we need as a reserve.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Everything
  • Earn

• When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Disease

• It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Something
  • Away
  • Arts

• I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Family
  • Home
  • Proud

• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
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• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Great
  • Peace
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• When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

  

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• My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

  

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  • Work
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• I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Time
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• It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Long
  • Remember
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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
  • Science
  • Growth
  • Civil War