The Gallaudet University President's Fellowship program supports post BA deaf and hard of hearing full-time graduate students in their pursuit of a Ph.D. or terminal degree in an academic discipline. The goal of the program is to increase the number of deaf people qualified for teaching positions at the University level.

Chaos, as defined by dictionary.com:

The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

and

A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.

So, you can say that I am gearing up for my Big Bang. My Big Bang will be me becoming a professional blogger. More on that very soon, I promise. Yes, Vlad, it also involves vlogging, big time.

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A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.

The trend of the times...refused them recognition save in individual and exceptional cases, considered them as one with all the despised blacks.

"We never sufficiently reflect that a language, strictly speaking, can only be symbolical and figurative, that it can never express things directly, but only, as it were, reflectedly. This is especially the case in speaking of qualities which are only imperfectly presented to observation, which might rather be called powers than objects, and which are ever in movement throughout nature. They are not to be arrested, and yet we find it necessary to describe them; hence we look for all kinds of formulae in order, figuratively at least, to define them."

"Metaphysical formulae have breadth as well as depth, but on this very account they require a corresponding import; the danger here is vagueness. Mathematical expressions may in many cases be very conveniently and happily employed, but there is always an inflexibility in them, and we presently feel their inadequacy; for even in elementary cases we are very soon conscious of an incommensurable idea; they are besides, only intelligible to those who are especially conversant in the sciences to which much formulae are appropriated. The terms of the science of mechanics are more addressed to the ordinary mind, but they are ordinary in other senses, and always have something unpolished; they destroy the inward life to offer from without an insufficient substitute for it. Moral terms [religion], which undoubtedly can express nicer relations, have the effect of mere symbols in the end, and are in danger of being lost in a play of wit.

"If, however, a writer could use all these modes of description and expression with perfect command, and thus give forth the result of his observations on the phenomena of nature in a diversified language; if he could preserve himself from predilections, still embodying a lively meaning in as animated an expression, we might look for much instruction communicated in the most agreeable of forms."

"Yet, how difficult it is to avoid substituting the sign for the thing; how difficult to keep the essential quality will living before us, and not to kill it with the word. With all this, we are exposed in modern times to a still greater danger by adopting expressions and terminologies from all branches of knowledge and science to embody our views of simple nature. Astronomy, cosmology, geology, natural history, *nay* religion and mysticism, are called in our aid; and how often do we not find a general idea and an elementary state rather hidden and obscured than elucidated and brought nearer to us by the employment of terms, the application of which is strictly specific and secondary."

"...if we look through the history of science in general, especially the history of physics, we shall find that many important acquisitions have been made by single inquirers, in single departments, and very often by unprofessional observers."

"No one ever dreams of explaining chemical experiments with figures; yet it is customary in physical researches nearly allied to these, because the object is thus found to be in some degree answered. In many cases, however, such diagrams represent mere notions; they are symbolical resources, hieroglyphic modes of communication, which by degrees assume the place of the phenomena and of Nature herself, and thus hinder than promote true knowledge."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"It is by abolishing all the barriers which separate nations and countries that civilization is best furthered."

"He who has never had anything has never lost anything; and he who never lost anything has nothing to regret. Consequently, the deaf and dumb, who have never heard or spoke, have never lost either hearing or speech, therefore cannot lament either the one or the other."