Calculus Quotes

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

— Alan Watts

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

— Jon Hamm

I almost flunked pre-calculus back in high school.

— Steve Kornacki

I see it, but I don't believe it.

— Richard Dedekind

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Everything tries to be round.

— Black Elk

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

— Paul Brodeur

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

— Karl Marx

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.

— Robert Coleman Richardson

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

— Wallace B. Smith

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

— William Fogg Osgood

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

— Gayle Forman

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

— David Plouffe

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

— Andy Rooney

The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities.

— James Clerk Maxwell

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

— Richard Courant

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

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add…

— Richard Bach

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

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

— Nicholas Murray Butler

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing…

— Kina Grannis

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

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

Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the…

— Giuseppe Peano

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a…

— Noam Chomsky

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be…

— Thomas Sydenham

“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

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could…

— Neal Shusterman

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

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,…

— Thomas Reid

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare…

— Noam Chomsky

“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous,…

— Steven Strogatz

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how…

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Abraham Robinson

I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever…

— Eben Alexander

“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a…

— Oliver Heaviside

We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.…

— Judith Curry

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

We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at…

— Heinrich Burkhardt