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

- George Boole

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,…

- George Boole

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 …

- George Boole

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

- George Boole

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

- George Boole

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 …

- George Boole

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…

- George Boole

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

- George Boole

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 …

- George Boole