"Imagine Aristotle revivified and visiting Manhattan. Nothing in our social, political, economic, artistic, sexual or religious life would mystify him, but he would be staggered by our technology. Its productsâskyscrapers, cars, airplanes, television, pocket calculatorsâwould have been impossible without calculus."
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Martin Gardner in book review, "Adventures Of a Mathematician: The Man Who Invented the H-Bomb", New York Times (9 May 1976), 201.
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