Calculations Quotes
107 quotes by 99 authors
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
— Kofi Annan
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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or…
— Hiram Maxim
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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness…
— Roger Penrose
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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country,…
— Omar Bongo
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The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
— Hermann Bondi
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases…
— Francis Galton
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I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my…
— Johannes Kepler
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It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics…
— Barack Obama
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Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product…
— Edwin Howard Armstrong
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There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was…
— J. A. Ratcliffe
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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the…
— Jean-Victor Poncelet
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
— Daniel Dennett
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The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but…
— Sun Tzu
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A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the…
— Des MacHale
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The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of…
— Henry R. Towne
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What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they…
— Richard Dawkins
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