Circles Quote by Augustus De Morgan Download Open image “It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.” — Augustus De Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circles Easier Education Math Math and science Mathematical Mathematician Mathematics Mathematics by mathematicians Numbers and math Rounds Squares
It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It is easier to square a 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
“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
“Pythagoras has had me going round in circles for years.” ― Anthony Merrydew” — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer 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 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
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle. — Rene Thom 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