One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side… — David R. Brower 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
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
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere Copy Share Image
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem,… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
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
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally,… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
