Calculus Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

— Andy Rooney

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

— Kory Stamper

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

— Saint Augustine

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but…

— Harry Mathews

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Mathematics is a language

— J. Willard Gibbs

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

— George Santayana

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across…

— Martin Gardner

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than…

— John von Neumann

... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural;…

— Alexandre Borovik