Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.
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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