If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
-- Simon Newcomb
   
Simon Newcomb   Name:
Simon Newcomb
Type:
Mathematician
Nationality:
Canadian
Birth:
March 12, 1835
Death:
July 11, 1909
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