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“He was also mistaken in supposing that he was dealing with the laws of thought: the question how people actually think was quite irrelevant to him, and if his book had really contained the laws of thought, it was curious that no one should ever have thought in such a way before.”
— Bertrand Russell paid George Boole an extraordinary compliment: “Pure mathematics was discovered by Boole, in a work which he called the Laws of Thought.”, Mysticism and logic, and other essays, Rowman & Littlefield, 1981, p.59. cited in James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Pantheon Books, New York, 2011, p. 167.
