"Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels."

Source : "The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical Association of America, Volume 32". Book published by The Association (p. 6), 1925.

Benjamin Peirce

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“Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.”
“Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.”
“Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.”
“Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.”

Source : "Guinness Rockopedia". Book by David Roberts, pp. 168-169, 1998.
“But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.”
“I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.”
“Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?”
“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.5, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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