Simon Newcomb Quotes


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.


Citations

Newcomb, Simon. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903, p. 20.

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Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb
  • Born: March 12, 1835
  • Died: July 11, 1909
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Profession: Mathematician

Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching.