Calculations Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Science constantly furnishes us with astonishing ideas about the nature of reality. Physics tells us that there may be an infinite number of universes,…

— Don Ross

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true,…

— Nancy Cartwright

Science seems to be at war with itself… Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism tobe false. Therefore naive…

— Bertrand Russell

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an…

— Henry Petroski

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

— Immanuel Kant

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They…

— Temple Grandin

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…

— Pablo Picasso

“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those…

— John Tyndall

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

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…

— Barack Obama

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

— Paul Gauguin