Calculus Quote by Thomas Sydenham

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have…

— Thomas Sydenham

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than…

— Thomas Sydenham

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez,…

— Virginia Postrel

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

— Ambrose Bierce

This too shall pass - just like a kidney stone

— Hunter Madsen

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

— Thomas Browne

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

— Richard Courant

“If your doctor relies on blood and urine tests to diagnose and treat you, then you could be in serious trouble.”

— Steven Magee

The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.

— Tom Robbins

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm…

— Andrew Sean Greer