L Euler Quotes

#1. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Leonhard Euler

#2. When Euler died, he simply said I am finished and collapsed, to which someone in the audience muttered darkly" Another conjecture of Euler is proved

Paul Erdos

#3. Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Hermann Goring

#4. I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

George Polya

#5. I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

Hilary Duff

#6. Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Leonhard Euler

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

Richard Courant

#8. Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

William Poundstone

#9. A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

Leonhard Euler

#10. For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Leonhard Euler

#11. Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Leonhard Euler

#12. A thought had come to Thozan more than once: the ultimate reason we are set in this world is to break each other's hearts...

Nemo Euler

#13. You look like Euler's equation, he murmured as he looked me up and down.
Nerd translation: Euler's equation is said to be the most perfect formula ever written. Simple but elegant. Beautiful.

Cynthia Hand

#14. Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

#15. It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

Thomas Reid

#16. There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#17. Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#18. Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

#19. Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

Francois Arago

#20. Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Frederick The Great

#21. After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Leonhard Euler

#22. Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Leonhard Euler

#23. We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

Pat Summitt

#24. "Read Euler: he is our master in everything."

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#25. For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459 ... by the letter e.

Leonhard Euler

#26. Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

Keith Devlin

#27. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go ... anywhere.

Michael Phelps

#28. It occurred to him that he may have led them into a topic he had no intentions of exploring further. Fantasies, sure. Wishes, all the time. But reality? No - this was taboo. This would end in nothing good. She

Marissa Meyer

#29. Now I will have less distraction.

Leonhard Euler

#30. Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

Leonhard Euler

#31. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

#32. I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Lady Gaga

#33. The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.

William Whewell