Calculus Quote by Kit Williams

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

— Richard Courant

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...

— W. W. Rouse Ball

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous

With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the…

— Richard Courant

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone.…

— Fritz Leiber

“Isaac Newton was a brilliant British mathematician and physicist who came up with three laws of motion,”

— Jerome Pohlen

“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and…

— John D. Barrow

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a…

— Timothy Leary

“he described his own ideals, the desire for fulfillment not just as a theorist but also as an experimental physicist. (In the second respect,…

— Abraham Pais

Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would…

— Thomas Young