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 masculine vig….

I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly ….

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event wou….

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 ou….

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order,….

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I ….

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted..

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 until ….

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an….

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity..

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception..