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

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

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation ...

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

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

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

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

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

I was x years old in the year x2.

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

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

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