Calculation Quotes

145 quotes by 128 authors

When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy.… — Gregory Berns
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. — Thomas Huxley
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no… — Immanuel Kant
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective… — David Berlinski
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic,… — James Mace
Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others… — Ernest K. Gann
Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation. — Rich Lowry
If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That's… — Charlie Munger
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities. — George Eliot
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus… — Henri Bergson
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you… — Nina Bawden
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — Ludwig von Mises
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. — Madame de Stael
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost… — Joseph Lancaster
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. — Seth Lloyd
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. — Thomas Jefferson

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