Surveyor

🇺🇸Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics

pragmatism

1839–1914

"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."

"Cross-culturality differs radically from multiculturality. There is no creative and re-creative sharing of dimensions in multiculturality."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science

1777–1855

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."

🇬🇧Valentine Blacker

Military

1778–1826

"Blacker, with the exception of Col Everest, was the ablest and most scientific man that ever presided over this expensive department"

John Ogilby

Business

1600–1676

"True Valour best is without Witness shown."

🇺🇸Richard F. Pettigrew

Law

1848–1926

"Each act of aggression, each new expedition of conquest is prefaced by a pronouncement containing a moral justification and an assurance to the victims of the imperial aggression that all is being done for their benefit."

🇷🇺Leonid Brezhnev

Politics

1906–1982

"December 30, 1922, is a truly historic date in the life of our state, an important milestone in the life of all the Soviet peoples, their great festival."

Simon Stevin

Mathematics

1548–1620

"The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found."