Calculus Quotes

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

— Paul Brodeur

I see it, but I don't believe it.

— Richard Dedekind

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Everything tries to be round.

— Black Elk

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

— Alan Watts

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

— Jon Hamm

I almost flunked pre-calculus back in high school.

— Steve Kornacki

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

— Norman Cousins

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

— Scott Hamilton

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

— Keith Devlin

As you will find in multivariabe calculus, there's aften a number of solutions for any given problem.

— Carlin Whisler

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus.

— Lauren Kate

“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”

— John Rachel

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

— James Pierpont

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

— Andy Rooney

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I…

— Stephenie Meyer

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the…

— Antonin Artaud

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work,…

— Christine Sneed

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…

— Mary Somerville

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver…

— Edward Mills Purcell

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

— Vladimir Arnold

Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with…

— Benjamin Peirce

The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for…

— John Bolton

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible…

— Felix Klein

Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you…

— Alexandre Borovik

“I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the…

— Jennifer Ouellette

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time…

— Jim Morrison

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the…

— Felix Klein

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects…

— Anonymous

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at…

— Heinrich Burkhardt

I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever…

— Eben Alexander

“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a…

— Oliver Heaviside

We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.…

— Judith Curry

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how…

— Stephen Leacock

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But…

— Abraham Robinson

“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous,…

— Steven Strogatz