Johann Bernoulli Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Truth ... and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Charles Mackay

#5. One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

#6. The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

Johann Bernoulli

#7. Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

Mary Martin

#8. If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

Rick Yancey

#9. From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment.

Malcolm Gladwell

#10. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

Ban Ki-moon

#11. A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.

Johann Bernoulli

#12. Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker.

Sergio Ramos

#13. As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Harry Truman

#15. As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

Desmond Tutu

#16. But odd as his family might be, they were nothing compared to this. In fact, that was one of the great comforts of his job. At least his family compared well to people who actually killed each other, rather than just thought about it.

Louise Penny