"To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence."

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I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.

— George Boole