You will feel interested to know the fate of my mathematical speculations in Cambridge. One of the papers is already printed in the Mathematical Jour… - 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 gives the impression of also being beautiful.

It has been said, that the principle involved in the above and in similar applications is that of the equal distribution of our knowledge, or rather of our ignorance the assigning to different states of things of which we know nothing, and upon the very ground that we know nothing, equal degrees of probability. I apprehend, however, that this is an arbitrary method of procedure. Instances may occur, and one such has been adduced, in which different hypotheses lead to the same final conclusion.

A studious person may neglect his business for the sake of books; but if he does this, it is not his books that are to blame, but his want of principle of firmness.