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Calculus Quotes by David Berlinski
- The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period…
- The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
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- I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great
- [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — 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… — Unknown Author
- 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
- Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Unknown Author
- The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann