But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. - Augustus De Morgan
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
- Augustus De Morgan
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. - Augustus De Morgan
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.
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 … - Augustus De Morgan
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 …
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematica… - Augustus De Morgan
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematica…
I was x years old in the year x2. - Augustus De Morgan
I was x years old in the year x2.
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. - Augustus De Morgan
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. - Augustus De Morgan
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you. - Augustus De Morgan
I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.
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 af… - Augustus De Morgan
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 af…
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