Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. — William Stanley Jevons 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
Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.” — John Rachel 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
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
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
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should… — Anya Kamenetz 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
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes… — Leonhard Euler 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
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
“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
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
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
“The ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the movements of the air and to obtain, as… — Andrija Maurović 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
“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood 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
...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
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of… — Shelly Kagan Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
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