John Venn

"I... chose rather to publish... in puris Naturalibus, or as they were produced as first, than be at the Tro…"

"It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave."

"The worst of his life is not that he thinks that it is living, but that he is satisfied with it, and the mo…"

"Because our minds need to reduce information, we are more likely to try to squeeze a phenomenon into the Pr…"

"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of i…"

"I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid — a term u…"