Augustus De Morgan Quotes - Page 2

• As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Book, Writing, Science

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• Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Average, Years, Rooms

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• The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Song, Drinking, Astronomy

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