One, Two, Three Quotes

“In his introduction to Charles M. Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, T. E. Lawrence attempted to describe the character of the desert Arabs that both he and Doughty had admired. “They are the least morbid of peoples,” Lawrence wrote, “who take the gift of life unquestioningly, as an axiom.”
― David Berlinski, One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics

“Were textbooks to disappear tomorrow, and with them the treasures that they contain, it would take centuries to rediscover the calculus, but only days to recover our debts, and with our debts, the numbers that express them.”
― David Berlinski, One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics