Boole Quotes

#1. Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.

Mary Everest Boole

#2. 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

#3. There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.

George Boole

#4. The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

Mary Everest Boole

#5. Fourth quarter. The Denver Broncos played the San Francisco 49ers at

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#6. 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

#7. Let yourself becoming living poetry

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.

Steve Harvey

#9. That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

George Boole

#10. The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

George Boole

#11. 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

#12. Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

Marisha Pessl

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

George Boole

#14. All we can do is try not to fall.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#15. Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Mary Everest Boole

#16. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.

Denis Fitzpatrick

#17. I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'anti-men'. I'm just 'Thumbs up for the six billion

Caitlin Moran