Calculus Quotes

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.

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.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

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

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

I like math, which sounds really nerdy.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

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

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.

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

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

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

Fifty percent of our high schools do not even offer calculus—no one in those schools can take calculus.

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.