Calculus Quote by Jennifer Ouellette

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

— John Pople

“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling at x…

— Andrew Sturm

“Okay, so I may use basic math for doing my checking account, the percent-off sales on my favorite shoes, and other mundane things, but…

— Amanda Jason

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I…

— Eileen Pollack

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

— Scott Hamilton

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

— Stephenie Meyer

“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching.…

— Steven Strogatz

“I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the greatest gift…

— Jennifer Ouellette