Augustus De Morgan Quotes

• The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Teacher, Moving, Math

  "The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton". Book by Robert Perceval Graves, Volume 3, p. 219, 1889.

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• I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

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  Said, Disagree

  "The Quantum Brain: Theory and Implications". Book by August Stern, p. 7, 1994.

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• Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

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  Results, Hypothesis, Observation

  Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.55

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• 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 taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

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  Spiritual, Mistake, Taken

  Augustus De Morgan (1863). “From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years'experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers”, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set puts out the logical eye, the logical set puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. Note that De Morgan, himself, only had sight with only one eye.

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  Believe, Eye, Science

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• It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

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  Educación, Matemáticas, Cuadrados

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

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  Care, Logic, Mathematics

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• Tenía x años en el año x2.

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  Education, Math, Years

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• Las grandes pulgas tienen pequeñas pulgas en sus espaldas para picarlas, Y las pequeñas pulgas tienen pulgas menores, y así ad infinitum, Y las grandes pulgas, a su vez, tienen pulgas mayores para continuar, Mientras que éstas tienen aún mayores, y mayores, y así sucesivamente.

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  Ems, Goes On, Littles

  Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes”, p.377

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• I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

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  Science, Quip

  Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, Augustus De Morgan (2010). “Memoir of Augustus De Morgan: With Selections from His Letters”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

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  Writing, Greek, Sacred

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• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

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  Education, Memories, Differentiation

  "Modern Computer Algebra". Book by Joachim von zur Gathen, April 25, 2013.

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• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown, but from forms in which memory does not serve us to those in which it does.

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  Memories, Creativity, Imagination

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• My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.

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  Believe, Mean, Ontology

  Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.70

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• But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

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  Gambling, Circles, Would Be

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]

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  Escribir, Pensar, Años

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.

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• 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 after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.

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  Math, Logic, Improvement

  Augustus De Morgan (1966). “On the syllogism: and other logical writings”

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• Termino con unas palabras sobre los nuevos símbolos que he empleado. La mayoría de los escritores sobre lógica se oponen firmemente a todos los símbolos. ... Yo aconsejaría al lector que no se decidiera sobre este punto hasta que no haya sopesado bien dos hechos que nadie discute, tanto por separado como en conexión. En primer lugar, la lógica es la única ciencia que no ha progresado desde el renacimiento de las letras; en segundo lugar, la lógica es la única ciencia que no ha producido un crecimiento de los símbolos.

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  Two, Growth, Mind

  Augustus De Morgan (1860). “Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic”, p.72

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• During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It has become mathematical. The question now is, not whether this or that hypothesis is better or worse to the pure thought, but whether it accords with observed phenomena in those consequences which can be shown necessarily to follow from it, if it be true

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  Knowledge, Science, Two

  Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.2

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• [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.

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  Taken, Science, Expectations

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• Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.

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  Squares, Circles, Roots

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• All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.

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  Perception, Degrees, Earth

  Augustus De Morgan (2014). “Formal Logic”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some inconsistency or absurdity. As far as real meaning is concerned, both are imaginary, since 0 - a is as inconceivable as √(-a).

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  Real, Expression, Negative

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• 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.

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  Average, Years, Rooms

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• It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw.

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  Reading, Science, Light

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