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Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World QUOTES

Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World QUOTES

1 " Mathematics can instruct us on how to optimize. But what to optimize—that remains a question for humans. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

2 " History is the sum of the people living it. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

3 " Math is a weave of many threads: the formal and the intuitive, the simple and the profound, the momentary and the eternal. Love the thread you love. But never mistake it for the tapestry. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

4 " All the world's a differential equation, and the men and women are merely variables. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

5 " Psychology: it's sociology for sociopaths. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

6 " Paradox is the grain of sand that helps form the pearl of theory. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

7 " With pendulums and escapements, we carved hours into minutes (the etymology: “a minute fraction of an hour”), and thence into seconds (as in “a second order” of tiny; a minute fraction of a minute). "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

8 " As prince of paradox Yogi Berra observed, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded now. "

― Ben Orlin , Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World