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Calculation Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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.
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