“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 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
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
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. — E. O. Wilson 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
Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only… — Ronald Ross 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith Copy Share Image
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski 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 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
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 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
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre 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
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers. — David Plouffe 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
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image