I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus…

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

— Jennifer Ouellette

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply,…

— Richard Bach

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue…

— Anya Kamenetz

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

— Anonymous

“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,…

— Herbert S. Gaskill

Everything tries to be round.

— Black Elk

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

— Gayle Forman

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

— Keith Devlin

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

— Nicholas Murray Butler

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

— Michael Eric Dyson

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then…

— Scott Jurek

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The…

— Alan Dershowitz

You always, I think, debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person…

— John O. Brennan

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

— Jim Morrison