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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

~George Boole

Topics: Acquaintance Affecting Certainty Change Circumstances Demand Event Expectation Founded Knowledge Leave Nor Occurrence Partial Perfect Probability Room Theory Would

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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 also gives the impression of being beautiful.

~George Boole

Topics: About Also Appear Beautiful Being Being Beautiful Correct Gives How Imperfect Impression Mathematical Matter May Never Ought Satisfied Something Theorem Until

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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

~George Boole

Topics: Essence Ideas Mathematics Number Quantity

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To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

~George Boole

Topics: Attained Beyond Does Faculties High Knowledge Laws Matured Merely Mind Need Object Ourselves Perceptive Rational Relations Secret Stand Those Thought Unfold Which World

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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.

~George Boole

Topics: Abstraction Converse Culture False Fatal Forms Growth Intellect Likely Many Masculine Most Perhaps Premature Prove

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Mathematician

Born: November 2nd, 1815

Died: December 8th, 1864

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