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During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It has become mathematical.

— Augustus De Morgan A Budget of Paradoxes (1872)

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The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.

On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics (1831)

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination.

If much difficulty should be experienced in the elementary chapters, I know of no work which I can so confidently recommend to be used with the present one, as that of M. Duhamel.

The Differential and Integral Calculus (1836)

The work now before the reader is the most extensive which our language contains on the subject.

The Differential and Integral Calculus (1836)

I am far from saying that this Treatise will be easy; the subject is a difficult one, as all know who have tried it.

The Differential and Integral Calculus (1836)

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