Calculus Quotes

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Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

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

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

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

You burros have calculus in your blood.

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 run even faster.

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

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

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

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

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

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

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

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

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

I am the very model of a modern major general

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

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

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

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

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

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

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

I was always very strong in math, physics and 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

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

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

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

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

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

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

A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

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.

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