Auguste Comte Quotes

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

… mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.