Augustus de Morgan Quotes

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

Augustus de Morgan

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Augustus de Morgan

Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.

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Augustus de Morgan

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

great greater
Augustus de Morgan

It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

circles
Augustus de Morgan

One day at least in every week, the sects of every kind their doctrines here are sure to seek, And just as sure to find.

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

paranormal spiritualism
Augustus de Morgan

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

imagination invention power
Augustus de Morgan

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.

perception power

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