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- [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed.… — Julian Coolidge
- An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany. — Franz Mehring
- By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as… — Cormac McCarthy