Imagination Quote by Augustus De Morgan Download Open image “The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.” — Augustus De Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination Innovation Invention Mathematical Mathematics Moving
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton, and mathematics has scarcely ever experienced such a stormy epoch. Mathematical thought removes the spirit from its worldly haunts to solitude and renounces the unveiling of the secrets of Nature. But as recompense, mathematics is less… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image