Attitude Quote by Philip J. Hanlon

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

— Bill Cosby

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

— John Pople

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

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

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

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus…

— Marlee Matlin

As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential…

— Richard Dedekind

“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 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

“Fundamentals build the foundation for all learning, you must understand arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus.”

— David A. Monty

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