Calculus Quotes

109 quotes by 95 authors

Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange… — James Clerk Maxwell
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right… — Alan Dershowitz
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded… — Frederick The Great
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development… — Stephen Smale
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in… — Marshall A. Cohen
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which… — Mary Somerville
We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical… — Malala Yousafzai
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To… — Leonhard Euler
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to… — Thomas Reid
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area… — Judith Curry
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. — Stephen Covey
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and… — Peter Thiel
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings… — Carol Tavris

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