Computations Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

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
The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn weâ€™re spiritsâ€”not animalsâ€¦.… — Ronald Reagan
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
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. — Rudy Rucker
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
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
Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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