Calculus Quotes

109 quotes by 95 authors

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus. — Debi Thomas
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so… — Antonin Artaud
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. — Francois Arago
You burros have calculus in your blood. — Jaime Escalante
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain… — Benjamin Graham
You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in… — Marlee Matlin
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances. — Andy Rooney
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on… — Andy Rooney
Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small. — Keith Devlin
Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined. — Ronald Ross
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I… — Amity Shlaes
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease.… — Thomas Sydenham
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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