"It was long before I got at the……" — Augustus De Morgan
"It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw."
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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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More Heifer Quotes
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With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a…
— Susan Sarandon
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns
— Groucho Marx
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Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content.…
— Alison Fell
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Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas…
— William Shakespeare
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Simi? You got some free time? (Kat) Of course I do. You know akri on Olympus with that heifer-goddess I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I don’t have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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See... I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the…
— GODDEY WILSON
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