The Beginning Of 1856 Found Me Teaching

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.

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.

Whenever A Total Eclipse Of The Sun Was Visible In An Accessible Region Parties Were Sent Out To Observe It.

The Mathematician Of To-day Admits That He Can Neither Square The Circle, Duplicate The Cube Or Trisect The Angle. May Not Our Mechanicians, In Like Manner, Be Ultimately Forced To Admit That Aerial Flight Is One Of That Great Class Of Problems With Which Men Can Never Cope... I Do Not Claim That This Is A Necessary Conclusion From Any Past Experience. But I Do Think That Success Must Await Progress Of A Different Kind From That Of Invention.

Ten Decimal Places Of π Are Sufficient To Give The Circumference Of The Earth To A Fraction Of An Inch, And Thirty Decimal Places Would Give The Circumference Of The Visible Universe To A Quantity Imperceptible To The Most Powerful Microscope.