Richard 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. Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.

Jim Stovall

#3. At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.

John Ridley

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

Richard Courant

#5. 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

#6. Some women were appointed to labor positions normally held by men and became trusted confidantes of male numbers bankers, using this affiliation with prominent policy men to thrive in male-dominated arenas.

LaShawn Harris

#7. There is no amount of money, and there is neither gold nor silver, nor any treasure trove that can compensate a soul for the loss of love.

Stephan Attia

#8. Now we were like those families in magazines, the ones who served food on matching crockery, and who drank water from glasses instead of mismatched mugs. We

Benjamin Law

#9. Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

Benjamin Graham

#10. 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

#11. Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

Lady Gaga

#12. Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

Heather Brewer

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

Richard Courant

#14. 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

#15. These days I can't tell what I really feel.

Jackie Kay