Calculation Quotes

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu
I would by all means have men beware, lest Ã†sop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at… — Francis Bacon
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At… — Werner Heisenberg
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis,… — Garry Kasparov
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,… — Nikola Tesla
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched… — Camille Flammarion
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but… — Sun Tzu
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into… — Thomas Jefferson
If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation. — Peter Lee
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the… — Lynn Steen
If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier,… — Murray Rothbard
'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest… — Michael Myers

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