Calculus Quote by Steven Strogatz

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

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

“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

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

— Abbi Glines

“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 studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand…

— Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

— Philip J. Hanlon

“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

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

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