George Boole Quotes
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
Boole, George. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. Walton and Maberly, 1854, p. 244.
Politicians, like many other people, often confuse correlation with causality as few have studied or understand the mathematics of probability.
George Boole was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the information age.
