I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit. — John Green Copy Share Image
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation. — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure… — George Biddell Airy Copy Share Image
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“We're here, and it's nighttime. So according to my calculations, we must not have done anything stupid.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I'm admitting girl, I'm not so good at math, but according to my calculations you're my other half. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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