Calculus Quotations

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

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

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.

Everything tries to be round.

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

New Year's Day was the perfect time for football because you could roll out of bed and you could start watching football, even before you manage to mix your aspirin and water. The second (of January) is just not the same. Some people are going to have to get up. The dynamic gets broken. The whole calculus changes.

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.

Here's an analogy. The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldn't divide by zero.

You know he's the right man for the job. It's just the mind-set he has. All the crap that can seep into your mind doesn't even enter his head. He breaks it down to A-B-C. For some guys it's the whole alphabet. It's trigonometry and calculus both. He's the consummate pro.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

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.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

Sometimes, in our thinking about higher education, we're too narrowly confined to a utilitarian calculus about what it's doing to the bottom line of UK plc. I wanted to make the point that higher education adds immeasurably to the value of the UK economy without necessarily obliging everybody to pursue courses that have some immediate vocational application. I wanted to stick up for medieval history, among other things, which was deprecated by Charles Clarke.

It's a lot better when they are running. You can smell the fuel. You can smell the burnt rubber. Ideally, the students can feel, hear, see and smell how calculus works.

It's like having calculus first period. You are not real happy when the alarm goes off, but by second period it's already over and you are running off to wood shop.

Anytime you can use real life examples in teaching is a positive experience for the students. Studying the cars on the track and translating the data from runs will help the students learn how calculus has many uses.

He sits there and absorbs everything and does better than us on calculus tests.

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Probability is the very guide of life.

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

The growth accomplishes a parallel increase in students taking demanding courses such as pre-algebra, calculus and physics. It is important to remember that the best preparation for the SAT is the day to day work students do in schools.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

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

I am the very model of a modern major general

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

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.