If science begins in awe as the eye extends itself throughout the cold of space, past the girdle of Orion and past the galaxies pinwheeling on their axes, then in the calculus mankind has created an instrument commensurate with its capacity to wonder.


A Tour of the Calculus, Introduction (pp. xi-xii), Pantheon Books. 1995

David Berlinski Quotes

If science begins in awe as the eye extends itself throughout the cold of space, past the girdle of Orion and past the galaxies pinwheeling on their...

If science begins in awe as the eye extends itself throughout the cold of space, past the girdle of Orion and past the galaxies pinwheeling on their...

If science begins in awe as the eye extends itself throughout the cold of space, past the girdle of Orion and past the galaxies pinwheeling on their...

If science begins in awe as the eye extends itself throughout the cold of space, past the girdle of Orion and past the galaxies pinwheeling on their...