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  • Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

    "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.
  • 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 works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

    Keith Devlin (2003). “Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition”, p.7, CRC Press
  • Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

  • Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.

    War   Men   Simple  
    Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

    Dream   Reality   House  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2017). “Dreams in the Witch House”, p.3, BookRix
  • For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

    Class   Might   Cases  
    Henry John Stephen Smith (1894). “Collected Mathematical Papers; Edited by J. W. L. Glaisher ... with a Mathematical Introduction by the Editor, Biographical Sketchesand a Portrait ...”
  • The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

    "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.
  • Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

  • 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'.

  • Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.

    Math   Men   Unity  
    Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press
  • Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.

    Beautiful   God   Nature  
    "The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical Association of America, Volume 32". Book published by The Association (p. 6), 1925.
  • These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

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

  • Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

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

  • Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus.

    Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.203, Delacorte Press
  • Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

    Beautiful   Art   Science  
  • I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

  • Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

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

    Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.104, Souvenir Press
  • Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?

    Numbers   Perfect   Doubt  
  • Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

    W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation
  • [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

    Science   Law   Numbers  
  • Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

    François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation
  • When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers look out the window and they see a million people marching, it changes their calculus. Well, here's an opportunity to continue working to organize these million people even if he is not the one in office.

  • I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.

    "Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840:From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Vol.1: The Setting". Book by Grattan-Guinness, p. 139, July 1, 1990.
  • There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

    Smart   Book   Skills  
  • God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

    Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.62, Springer Science & Business Media
  • One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."

    Smart   Exercise   Rights  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
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