I find both a special pleasure and constraint in describing the progress of mathematics, because it has been part of so much speculation: a ladder for mystical as well as rational thought in the intellectual ascent of man.


The Ascent of Man, Chapter 5 (p. 155), Little, Brown & Company. 1973

Jacob Bronowski Quotes

I find both a special pleasure and constraint in describing the progress of mathematics, because it has been part of so much speculation: a ladder...

I find both a special pleasure and constraint in describing the progress of mathematics, because it has been part of so much speculation: a ladder...

I find both a special pleasure and constraint in describing the progress of mathematics, because it has been part of so much speculation: a ladder...

I find both a special pleasure and constraint in describing the progress of mathematics, because it has been part of so much speculation: a ladder...