Calculus Quote by Richard Courant

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels

We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude…

— Sam Harris

“Sarah’s entrance, several minutes before the start of the lecture, had thrown Casimir into a titanic intellectual struggle. He now had to decide whether…

— Neal Stephenson

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles…

— Richard Courant

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

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

— Richard Courant

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

— Gayle Forman

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

— Keith Devlin

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

— Nicholas Murray Butler

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

— Michael Eric Dyson

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then…

— Scott Jurek