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
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is… — Andrew Sean Greer 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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