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"One of the most curious of these cases [geometrical paradoxers] was that of a student, I am not sure but a graduate, …"

"I knew that flying machines were impossible; in engineering school I had studied Professor Simon Newcomb's well-known…"

"Professor Fisher's The Purchasing Power of Money is dedicated to Simon Newcomb, from whom vid Professor Kemmerer the …"

"It is a matter of historical record that Newcomb, one of the most eminent American mathematicians of his day, publish…"

"There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves alon…"

"In the late 19th century, Newcomb was one of America’s best known and probably one of its most powerful scientists. H…"

"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"

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