My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class,… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Love was actually more like calculus or physics. What was the half-life of love? Did it have cosigns and slopes, or quarks… — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
“Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. "You know what's normal?" "What?" She wiped away her remaining tears. "Calculus.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen,… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus… — John Green Copy Share Image
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time… — Hugo Rossi Copy Share Image
