Calculus Quotes
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Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.
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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
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The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
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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.
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I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
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I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
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I am the very model of a modern major general
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PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.
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Men and women perform a different sexual calculus. As Harper’s put it perfectly: “Women are inclined to regret the sex they had, and men the sex they didn’t.
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The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
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It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.
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Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
