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.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

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

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.

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.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

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.

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.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

Service is joy, service is happiness.

They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

What you do today will determine how you feel tomorrow.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.