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Calculation Quotes by Plato
- I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to…
- Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had…
- At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred…
More Calculation Quotes
- It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin
- It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before… — Werner Heisenberg
- The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel
- His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla
- If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most… — Nikola Tesla
- We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — Ludwig von Mises
- As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought… — Charles Babbage
- A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its… — George Gershwin