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Science Quotes by W. W. Rouse Ball
- 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
- De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of…
- Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in…
- Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to…
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
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