Physical Knowledge Quotes by Augustus De Morgan

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• During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had…
• [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He…
• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...
• I was x years old in the year x2.
• Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a…
• Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He…
• The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a…
• The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
• The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would…
• It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
• I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual…
• Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And…

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