"Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems."

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Source : "Non-Newtonian Calculus", Middlesex Math Notes, 1977.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

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“One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.”
“One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be...”
“An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford
“People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".”
“I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.”
“It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?”
“When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.”
“True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”

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