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George Boole

Irish Mathematician

Born: Nov 2, 1815

Died: Dec 8, 1864

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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

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

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

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

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