
Top 28 Bernoulli Quotes
#1. But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.
Johann Bernoulli
#2. My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.
Jenn Lyon
#3. Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!
Jacob Bernoulli
#4. The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x ...
Gottfried Leibniz
#6. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.
William Poundstone
#7. Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.
Diane Helbig
#8. All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.
Daniel Bernoulli
#9. It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.
Ralph Royce
#10. The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill.
Wallace Stevens
#11. One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests ... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.
Sidney Hook
#12. The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."
Johann Bernoulli
#13. It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Daniel Bernoulli
#14. A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.
Johann Bernoulli
#15. There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Daniel Bernoulli
#16. The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#17. You dance the troika in the opening of my veins and I only protest with a murmur.
Malak El Halabi
#18. Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.
William Poundstone
#19. When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.
Andy Warhol
#20. The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.
Sylvia Earle
#21. And there is nothing between us but rain.
Then there is nothing between us at all.
Beth Revis
#22. It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
Jacob Bernoulli
#24. My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.
Anne Waldman
#25. It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.
Jeff Cooper
#26. I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
Whitfield Diffie
#27. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.
William Poundstone
#28. Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.
Monica Johnson
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