I'm not one to make calculations, I'm spontaneous and I…

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .…

— Giacomo Puccini

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

— Micah Lexier

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an…

— Henry Petroski

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

— Immanuel Kant

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They…

— Temple Grandin

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…

— Pablo Picasso

“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those…

— John Tyndall

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in…

— Barack Obama

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

— Paul Gauguin

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

— Ludwig von Mises

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can…

— Allen W. Wood

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

— Isaac Newton