"It is easier to square a circle than……" — Augustus De Morgan
"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician."
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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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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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The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
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More Circle Quotes
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's…
— Paul Auster
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a…
— David Bailey
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
— Annie Besant
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the…
— Samuel Butler
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When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with…
— John Cena
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we…
— Pamela Anderson
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung…
— Pamela Anderson
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You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
— Jennifer Aniston
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