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
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another… — Daniel Dennett 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
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do… — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know.… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors,… — Steve McIntyre Copy Share Image
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
