Calculation Quotes

145 quotes by 128 authors

A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something… — Medard Boss
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any… — Lord Byron
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. — John Maynard Keynes
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . .… — Giacomo Puccini
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. — Margaret Fuller
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin
But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and… — Laura Brown
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and… — Piet Mondrian
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential… — Max Planck
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to… — Tony Rothman
The PS3 is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine...With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine… — Ken Kutaragi
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery… — George Steiner
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick… — Mark Haddon
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry R. Luce
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens

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