Progress Quotes by Augustus De Morgan

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

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...

— Augustus De Morgan

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

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

— Augustus De Morgan

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

“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

I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

— Augustus De Morgan

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

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

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

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

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

— Augustus De Morgan