Computations Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less…
— Lewis Fry Richardson
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The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals….…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
— Rudy Rucker
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena…
— Rudy Rucker
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We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations,…
— Hermann Weyl
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Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
— Odysseas Elytis
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What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if…
— Tara Brach
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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science…
— Howard Aiken
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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
— David Hilbert
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The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician,…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing…
— Seth Lloyd
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and…
— Max Weber
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People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer…
— Hermann Hesse
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There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human…
— Stephen Hawking
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Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting…
— Michael Dickinson
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven…
— Maria Mitchell
Who Wrote These Computations Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Computations Quotes as follows: