Infinitesimal Quotes

“Voltaire would mock the empire as “neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire,”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“In other words, if geometry was top-down mathematics, the method of indivisibles was bottom-up mathematics.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“The sole purpose of terms such as spirit and immortal soul was to allow unscrupulous and corrupt clergymen to frighten men and subject them to their will.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“in a land without a sovereign, Hobbes learned, every man lives in fear and makes war upon his neighbor.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“Invisible College”;”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“What up to that point could have been viewed as an internal rebellion within the Church now became a schism in which two rival faiths confronted each other in open hostility.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“No longer a critic, he was now a rebel,”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“is a Civill Warr with the Pen, which pulls out the sorde soon afterwards.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“one person, of whose acts a great multitude … have made themselves every one the author” in order that peace will prevail.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“in the absence of political order, human life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“Roger Bacon had complained that the calendar was “intolerable to all the wise, horrible to all astronomers, and ridiculed by all computists.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

“I think, therefore I am.”
― Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World