All Augustus De Morgan Quotes
- During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… Accord
- [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of… Accurate
- Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... Common
- I was x years old in the year x2. Inspirational
- Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has… Circle
- Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… Axiom
- The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some… Absurdity
- The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. Imagination
- The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved. Circle
- It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. Circle
- I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be… Both
- Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas… Ad
- The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. Been
- Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. Care
- Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century… Admitted
- I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should… Advise
- Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,… Average
- 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… Heifer
- We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set… Believe
- Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,… Artifice
- My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing… Believe
- As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. Age
- Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this… Any
- I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you. Beg
- It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. Circle