Calculable Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they…
— Bertrand Russell
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Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are…
— Roald Hoffmann
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Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method…
— Martin Heidegger
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These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less…
— Milan Kundera
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Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
— Gore Vidal
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