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

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

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

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.

You could never understand why I grind like I doMakiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.