My father was the most rational and the most dispa... -Simon Newcomb

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

Simon Newcomb , Mathematician
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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 gradu...
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 h...
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher....
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men....
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...

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Due to the comparison with our dad and uncle, the expectations were humongous. From that to people saying that my music has my signature has been a lo...
After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last....
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of th...
I wasn't a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad ha...
I'm from Newcastle and went to Cambridge University and I worried whether I'd fit in; I'm mixed race, so my mum grew up in Nigeria and my dad grew up ...
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My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spar...
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I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to ge...
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