Circles Quote by Augustus De Morgan Download Open image “It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.” — Augustus De Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circles Easier Mathematician Squares
It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Pythagoras has had me going round in circles for years.” ― Anthony Merrydew” — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“The proof in 1882 that pi is a transcendental number put a 2,000 year old problem to rest: for any given circle, can you… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
“The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create a circle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before.… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
It's important to recognize that expanding the circle of opportunity and increasing the democratic potential of our own society, as well as those across… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image