Calculus Quote by Wallace B. Smith Download Open image “Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.” — Wallace B. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calculus Math Mathematical Men Most powerful Powerful Powerful weapons Statistics Weapons Wit
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. — William Fogg Osgood Copy Share Image
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.” — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
You always, I think, debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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