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The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but…

Quote byAugustus De Morgan · 1806–1871

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in Robert Perceval Graves, The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Vol. 3 (1889), p. 219..

English (original)

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

— Augustus De Morgan

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