We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time the infinite is charmed into compliance, its luxuriance subordinated to the harsh concept of a limit.


A Tour of the Calculus, Introduction (p. xii), Pantheon Books. 1995

David Berlinski Quotes

We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time ...

We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time ...

We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time ...

We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time ...