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Augustus De Morgan quotes: Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

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

Augustus De Morgan quotes: The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

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

Augustus De Morgan quotes: Common integration is only the memory of differentiation ...

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation ...

Augustus De Morgan quotes: I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

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

Augustus De Morgan quotes: It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.

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

Augustus De Morgan quotes: Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Augustus De Morgan quotes: The Astronomer's Drinking SongAstronomers! What can availThose who calumniate us;Experiment can never failWith such an apparatus ...

The Astronomer's Drinking Song
Astronomers! What can avail
Those who calumniate us;
Experiment can never fail
With such an apparatus ...

Augustus De Morgan quotes: The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

Augustus De Morgan quotes: The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

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

Augustus De Morgan quotes: I was x years old in the year x2.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Augustus De Morgan quotes: As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

Augustus De Morgan quotes: The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

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

Augustus De Morgan quotes: I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

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