What we now call school training the pursuit of fixed studies at stated...
My father followed during most of his life the precarious occupation of a...
One hardly knows where in the history of science to look for an important...
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us...
The result was that if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening I...
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School...
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.