Ladder Quotes (1)
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.
Mathematics in Western Culture (1953), 382.
See also: | René Descartes (27) | Foundation (10) | Galileo Galilei (55) | Samuel Johnson (25) | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (21) | Matter (61) | Sir Isaac Newton (82)
