"The moving power of mathematical invention is not……" — Augustus De Morgan

"The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination."

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

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More Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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