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• SMILEY :+) Carl Friedrich Gau
• Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
  -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) when informed that his wife was dying...
• Pauca sed matura. [Few but excellent (or ripe).] -- Gau
• Pauca sed matura. (Few but excellent.) -- Gau
• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
  -- Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand....
• Quote #332 The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
  We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning....
• The *evident* character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud
  and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn....
• Beware the scurge of the Ice Queen!
• Pawn to Queen's level three.