--Ernest Ranan
"oh no, sir, you can't give him any character or depth! people need to recognize him.."
--death becomes her
"gentlemen, this is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth."
--benjamin peirce
"nevertheless we shall operate"
--cardan
