Calculus Quotes

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

  

  Wallace B. Smith
  • Man
  • Weapon
  • Calculus

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mathematics
  • Failed
  • Mastered

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • English
  • Language
  • Nuance

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Chances
  • Calculus

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

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Aim
  • Cost
  • Labour

• I am the very model of a modern major general

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Model
  • Modern
  • Minerals

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

  

  Scott Hamilton
  • Interested
  • Girls
  • Traveling

• 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.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Cost

• 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.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Interest
  • Ability
  • Mathematics

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

  

  William Fogg Osgood
  • Physical
  • Application
  • Broadest

• 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.

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexual

• 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.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Education
  • Economics
  • Aids

• 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.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Effort

• Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Making
  • Visible
  • Calculus

• Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Victory
  • Algebra
  • Calculus

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

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Moral
  • Willing
  • Calculus