Lancelot Thomas Hogben

Citations

• “This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen.”

• “An edict of A.D. 1259 forbade the bankers of Florence to use the infidel symbols, and the ecclesiastical authorities of the University of Padua in A.D. 1348 ordered that the price list of books should be prepared not in “ciphers”, but in plain letters.”