Colin Maclaurin Professions : Mathematician Born : February 1, 1698 Died : June 14, 1746 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Colin Maclaurin ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. Colin Maclaurin ontology logic purpose It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries. Colin Maclaurin philosophy science knowledge [writing to Stirling in 1740] Colin Maclaurin escaping wife writing Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors
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