My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before.… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share
