A point, it must be remembered, is not a number; holding place without size and arising whimsically whenever two straight lines are crossed, it is a geometrical object, a kind of fathomless atom out of which the line is ultimately created.


A Tour of the Calculus, Chapter 3 (p. 17), Pantheon Books. 1995

David Berlinski Quotes

A point, it must be remembered, is not a number; holding place without size and arising whimsically whenever two straight lines are crossed, it is a...

A point, it must be remembered, is not a number; holding place without size and arising whimsically whenever two straight lines are crossed, it is a...

A point, it must be remembered, is not a number; holding place without size and arising whimsically whenever two straight lines are crossed, it is a...

A point, it must be remembered, is not a number; holding place without size and arising whimsically whenever two straight lines are crossed, it is a...