More From Simon Newcomb
- "The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."
- "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."
- "My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
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- "My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there’s a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road."― Eric Stonestreet
- "When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad’s limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it."― David Alan Grier
- "I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they’re immediately wanting to be a parent or not."― Emily VanCamp