OT (sorta): Things that make you go hmmmm

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I found this today while looking for new quotes for my .sig file.

Thought you all might enjoy it too.

It's just one of those things that make ya go " hmmmmm. "

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom,

seeking a means of making a

circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all

equal. He discovered these

things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed

between them. He did not

know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names

he made axioms and

finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the

thirty-second proposition of

Euclid. -- C. M.

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Annie, who loves ya annie@...

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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to

grow sharper.

-- Eden Phillpotts