Calculus Quote by Terry Pratchett

“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations—riddles that could be solved. The trick was not to solve arithmetical problems. Five times five…

— Stieg Larsson

“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always…

— Lisa Kleypas

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math

— Josh Lucas

“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

“Algebra is numbers forgetting why they’re letters.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— David A. Monty

“But aside from Willy’s skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was…

— Sam Wellman

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words;…

— Mal Peet

“I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.' He moved his fingers gently on…

— Mal Peet

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein