Benjamin Peirce: Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understa — Benjamin Peirce

Gentlemen, that 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

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