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On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.

William Hamilton

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

William Hamilton

Mathematics afford us no assistance, either in conquering the difficulties, or in avoiding the dangers which we encounter in the great field of probabilities wherein we live and move.

William Hamilton

In mathematics, genus and species are hardly known.

William Hamilton

Mathematics have from the first been triumphant over the husk; Philosophy is still militant for the kernel.

William Hamilton

Mathematics may distort, but can never rectify, the mind.

William Hamilton

It is the highest compliment to the ingenuity of a Pascal, a Leibnitz, and a Babbage, in their invention of the arithmetical machine, that there would not be required, in those who use it, more than the dexterity of a turnspit.

William Hamilton

William Hamilton

William Hamilton

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Born: March 8, 1788

Died: May 6, 1856 (aged 68)

Bio: Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet was a Scottish metaphysician. He is often referred to as William Stirling Hamilton of Preston, in reference to his mother, Elizabeth Stirling.

Known for:

Lectures on metaphysics and logic
Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart (1853)
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic V2: Logic
The metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton

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