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The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
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Logic is conversant with two kinds of relations, relations among things, and relations among facts.
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The principles of the theory of probabilities [cannot] serve to guide us in the election of... [scientific] hypotheses.
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That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
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That logic, as a science, is susceptible of very wide applications is admitted; but it is equally certain that its ultimate forms and processes are mathematical.
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
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A studious person may neglect his business for the sake of books; but if he does this, it is not his books that are to blame, but his want of principle of of firmness.
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To deduce the laws of the symbols of Logic from a consideration of those operations of the mind which are implied in the strict use of language as an instrument of reasoning.
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it gives the impression of also being beautiful.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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Born:
November 2, 1815
Died:
December 8, 1864
(aged 49)
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