Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius…

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery…

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Robinson

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

— Anna Pavlova

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

— Clive Davis

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Mary Somerville

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

— Antonin Artaud

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

— Kit Williams

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

— Mary Somerville

I am the very model of a modern major general

— W. S. Gilbert

As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential…

— Richard Dedekind

“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what there was…

— Carl Sagan

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations…

— Sophus Lie

“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical…

— Oswald Spengler