Calculus Quotes

109 quotes by 95 authors

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as… — Isaac Asimov
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to… — W. W. Sawyer
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel… — Steven Johnson
I donâ€™t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus. — Ben Horowitz
As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem. — John Forbes Nash
In my free time I do differential and integral calculus. — Karl Marx
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject. — Harold Morowitz
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I… — W. S. Gilbert
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -… — Steven Strogatz
It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run… — Scott Jurek
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to… — Henry John Stephen Smith
Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in… — Guy Steele
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in… — Eben Alexander
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of oneâ€™s grandchildren,… — Noam Chomsky
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing… — Ellen Ochoa
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation of the methods… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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