Top 174 Calculus Quotes & Sayings

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

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 stupid.'

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

You burros have calculus in your blood.

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

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.

Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus.

I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

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

Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.

Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

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

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

The calculus is simple: Trump wants more freedom; Lockdown Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., want less.

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

I almost flunked pre-calculus back in high school.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.