Calculus Quote by Richard Courant

“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

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

— David Berlinski

“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

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

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

— Wallace B. Smith

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

“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”

— Abbi Glines

“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

“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii,…

— Jennifer Ouellette

“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

“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a weapon with…

— Christopher Steiner

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going…

— Andy Rooney