Calculations Quotes
107 quotes by 99 authors
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Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
— Ivan Illich
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God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways…
— Pope Francis
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs…
— Prince Charles
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its…
— Primo Levi
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All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
— Pierre-Georges Latecoere
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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,
— Charles Babbage
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more…
— Daniel Libeskind
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If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on…
— Margaret Davis Bowen
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For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent…
— Blaise Cendrars
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There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
— Ihara Saikaku
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A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based…
— Leo Strauss
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Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which…
— Gabriel Marcel
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This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special…
— Maria Montessori
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The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding…
— John Golden
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Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch…
— Henry Petroski
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
— Stanley Schmidt
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All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
— Lew Wallace
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental…
— Yuan T. Lee
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It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is…
— Claudio Magris
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Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those…
— Emanuel Lasker
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