Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus]… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus,… — Marshall A. Cohen Copy Share Image
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus."… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers… — Ben Wikler Copy Share Image
The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you… — Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth Copy Share Image
This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration -… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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![“When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers look out the window and they see a million people marching, it changes their calculus. Well, here's an opportunity to continue working to organize these million…” quote by Ben Wikler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/62a/ben-wikler-43058_calculus_when-bernie-sanders-was-challenged-about_2507064.jpg)
