"As to writing another book on geometry [to……" — 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."
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Augustus De Morgan
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25 Quotes by Augustus De Morgan
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During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which…
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[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his…
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Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...
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I was x years old in the year x2.
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly…
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel…
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The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution…
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The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
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The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of…
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It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
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I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things…
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad…
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