Quotes About Leonhard Euler

#1. 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

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

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

Leonhard Euler

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

Leonhard Euler

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.

Boy George

#8. Each reality is followed by one stranger than the last.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. In this room I grew.
So many lessons I learned
Opportunities I gained
Criticisms I gracefully endured
In this room, I made my mark.

Priscilla Koranteng

#10. Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

Gerard Way

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. So then, we are all equally guilty, every day. How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?

Ted Dekker

#14. We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

Tom Peters

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

Leonhard Euler

#16. You know you have arrived as a leader when people follow you because they want to, not because they have to.

Steve Gilliland

#17. The only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

John O'Donohue

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

Leonhard Euler

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

Leonhard Euler

#20. Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

Jodi Picoult

#21. He's naked," she said in a whisper louder than a yell.
"He knows," Cyrus said.
"Does he want a blanket?"
"Apparently not.

Dominique Eastwick

#22. Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

Suzanne Collins

#23. Now I will have less distraction.

Leonhard Euler

#24. I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion.

Drake

#25. 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

#26. Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.

Norton Juster

#27. 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

#28. Oh, go to hell, Gabriel! What are you going to do, flap you wrings around and throw your halon at me?

Christine Zolendz