Bores Quote by Gary Reilly

“Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a “Mental Performance Ratio (MPR),”

— Kenneth L. Higbee

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in…

— Glenn Gould

“Strictly quantitative mechanical calculations, by ratio or number, cannot be applied beforehand to human free productive organization as a whole.”

— Isabel Paterson

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

— Lord Kelvin

“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by a costly…

— Jordan Ellenberg

The only constant I can find is hard work.

— Paul Dano

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

— Martial

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

— D.T. Suzuki

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

— Paul Dirac

“Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.”

— Lawrence H. Keeley

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

— Edward Norton

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being…

— Richard P. Feynman