Quotes About Integrals

#1. Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

Richard Hamming

#2. No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

Doron Zeilberger

#3. The ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the movements of the air and to obtain, as their integral, the general atmospheric circulation, and as particular integrals the cyclones, anticyclones, tornados, and thunderstorms.

Andrija Maurovic

#4. Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals, 123 but for Hal's synoptic purposes here it's enough to say that megatonnage is distributed among Combatants according to an integrally regressed ratio of (a)

David Foster Wallace

#5. He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.

Confucius

#6. Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

Matthew Henry

#7. Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Ibn Rushd

#8. Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things.

Sebastian Barry

#9. The house was full of murmuring voices. I could practically feel each room getting choked with the hot breath of other people.

Adam Rapp

#10. We had right now, and that's all I truly needed. That's all we were ever really guaranteed.

Megan Squires

#11. If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.

William Graham Sumner

#12. That's what fresh babies look like. You should see it. Horrific. Your vagina rips in two and this purpled, wrinkled creature comes flying out. And you're stuck with it.

Ainslie Hogarth

#13. Women's eyes are always bright, whatever the colour,

H. Rider Haggard

#14. If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. You really are playing God." "I most certainly am not playing.

Orson Scott Card