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140 quotes by 127 authors
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But…
— Jackie Chan
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I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either…
— Hillary Clinton
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to…
— William Whewell
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which…
— William Hazlitt
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
— Alexander Hamilton
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot…
— James Hutton
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison…
— Abraham de Moivre
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of…
— Victor Hugo
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the…
— Des MacHale
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
— Seneca the Younger
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the…
— Walter Lippmann
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When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on…
— Alexander Hamilton
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'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it…
— George Washington
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Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when…
— Bill James
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When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears…
— Gautama Buddha
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You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the…
— Gavin Schmidt
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