"It is easier to square the circle than……" — Augustus De Morgan

"It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician."

— Augustus De Morgan

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25 Quotes by Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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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
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
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his… — Jean Baudrillard
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;… — Annie Besant
The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical… — Annie Besant
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence… — H. P. Blavatsky
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the… — Samuel Butler
When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with… — John Cena
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we… — Pamela Anderson
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung… — Pamela Anderson
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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