George Boole Quotes
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it…
- It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind…
- To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and…
- Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a…
- That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,…
- It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.