Cleveland Abbe Quotes

• As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Running, Men, Growing

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• True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

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  Inquiry, Hypothesis, Propositions

  Cleveland Abbe (1893). “The Meteorological Work of the U. S. Signal Service, 1870 to 1891”

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• It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

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  Long, Youth, Should

  Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

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• My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

  Cleveland Abbe

  New York, Ignorance, Weather

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