I just came upon a drawing of Newton with the following verbiage overlaid:
“Think you’re bored? Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus during the plague. Do you have any idea of how bored you must be to invent calculus?”
Wish I had seen this years ago when I was teaching some grad math. ‘Twould have added some humor to “Calculus on Manifolds”.
On my first day of college Physics, the Professor came in and asked for a show of hands of how many people in the class were going to continue their education in the field of Physics. Nobody raised their hands. He said since that was the case, he didn’t see the point in teaching us calculus-based physics and so he taught everything using algebra-based physics.
The best part was I had just aced a year of algebra-based physics for my Tech degree, so I got another year of the same for my accredited Bachelors degree.