Calculation Quotes

145 quotes by 128 authors

Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it… — Hannah Whitall Smith
I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a… — John Grier Hibben
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the… — Martin Gardner
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation… — Thomas Jefferson
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis de Custine
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it… — Henry Petroski
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through… — Theodore Kaczynski
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. — Samuel Johnson
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. — Joseph Joubert
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in… — Lewis Thomas
Death is the surest calculation that can be made. — Ludwig Buchner
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. — Martin Heidegger
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of… — Alexander Alekhine
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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