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
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley 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
Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my… — Margaret Davis Bowen Copy Share Image
He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Copy Share Image
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought… — Charles Babbage 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
Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the… — James Mace Copy Share Image
I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic… — Peter Lee Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
