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Belief is but another name for imperfect knowledge...

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

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Proof requires a person who can give and a person who can receive.

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

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

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Mysterious 3.14159...comes in at every door and window, and down every chimney.

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The pseudomath is a person who handles mathematics as the monkey handled the razor.

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The history of the intellectual world is the history of the worship of one idol after another.

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The work now before the reader is the most extensive which our language contains on the subject.

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

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Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

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Montucla remarked, that if any subject might be expected to baffle the mathematician, it would be chance.

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Infinity is a pertinacious meddler, who will not be turned out: we must find out what he wants, and give it him.

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Madmen reason rightly upon wrong premises: Mr. Smith [a circle squarer] reasons wrongly upon no premises at all.

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I am far from saying that this Treatise will be easy; the subject is a difficult one, as all know who have tried it.

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

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If you wish to oppose a mathematician, confront him on some question in the parts of his subject which are supposed to be perfectly demonstrated.

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Would Mathematicals — forsooth — If true, have failed to prove truth? Would not they — if they could — submit Some overwhelming proofs of it?

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No person commences the study of mathematics without soon discovering that it is of a very different nature from those to which he has been accustomed.

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Every kind of human knowledge has unanswerable questions at its end: and until the insoluble problems are revealed, we plume ourselves upon our progress.

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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.

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I had expressed my wish to have a thermometer of probability, with impossibility at one end, as 2 plus 2 makes 5, and necessity at the other as 2 plus 2 make 4.

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If much difficulty should be experienced in the elementary chapters, I know of no work which I can so confidently recommend to be used with the present one, as that of M. Duhamel.

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Let him also say what this mysterious 3.14159...really is, which comes in at every door and window, and down every chimney, calling itself the circumference to a unit of diameter.

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A person of small knowledge is in danger of trying to make his little do the work of more; but a person without any is in more danger of making his no knowledge do the work of some.

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I think the time may come when double algebra will be the beginner's tool; and quaternions will be where double algebra is no. The Lord only knows what will come above the quaternions.

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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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Trigonometry contains the science of continually undulating magnitude : meaning magnitude which becomes alternately greater and less, without any termination to succession of increase and decrease.

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The greatest writers on mathematical subjects have a genius which saves them from their own slips, and guides them to true results through inaccurate expression, and sometimes through absolute error.

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