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This name [Uranus] is appropriate, inasmuch as Uranus is the father of Saturn, in mythology, as Saturn is of Jupiter, and Jupiter of Mars; but what will be done if a new planet should be discovered still more distant than Uranus?

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

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Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan
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Born: June 27, 1806
Died: March 18, 1871 (aged 64)
Bio: Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.
Known for:
  1. A Budget of Paradoxes
  2. An Essay on Probabilities (1838)
  3. Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849)
  4. On the study and difficulties of mathematics (1830)
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