Courant Quotes

#1. With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

Richard Courant

#2. Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

Kiersten White

#3. Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

Richard Courant

#4. Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

Richard Courant

#5. The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.

Herb Caen

#6. Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates me. I like to be open to a makeup artist's ideas on the look they want to create, but I always ask to keep my foundation pretty lightweight and luminescent.

Amanda Crew

#7. Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

Janine Benyus

#8. I confess, I do not believe in time.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.

Henry Rollins

#10. Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#11. The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch.

Gillian Flynn

#12. He gives me all his numbers and writes mine down on a tram ticket. I am listening hard, but he doesn't say I'll call you.

Toni Jordan

#13. All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Janet Jackson

#14. For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Richard Courant

#15. Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times.

Gina Greenlee

#16. The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Ludwig Von Mises

#17. Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

Calvin Trillin

#18. Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Richard Courant

#19. The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Plato

#20. It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Richard Courant

#21. Libraries) Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries and Scholarly Publishing, edited by Maria Bonn and Mike Furlough. As Courant and Jones

Alice Crawford

#22. I am always begging them to spare me this chasing after men.

Joan Leslie

#23. ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE

Patricia J Tackett

#24. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

Simon Jenkins

#25. If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

LeCrae

#26. Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

Charles Saatchi

#27. Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

Eric Alterman