Calculus Quote by Henry John Stephen Smith

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those…

— Anonymous

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can…

— John Herschel

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity,…

— Francis Bacon

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to…

— Felix Klein

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies…

— Arthur Schuster

“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”

— Klaudio Marashi

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple,…

— David Hume

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little:…

— Jean Fresnel

“However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to…

— Albert Einstein