Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. — George Boole Copy Share Image
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. — George Boole Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions… — George Boole Copy Share Image
It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an… — George Boole Copy Share Image
