"Mathematics is no more computation than typing is……" — John Allen Paulos

More Computation Quotes

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• When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,… — Charles Lyell
• Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances… — Lewis Fry Richardson
• The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world,… — Ronald Reagan
• When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and… — Epictetus
• Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it… — John A. Van de Walle
• As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia… — Unknown Author
• My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. — Poul Anderson
• The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry… — Paul Dirac
• Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. — Roger Penrose
• All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will… — Seth Lloyd
• I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal… — Seth Lloyd
• The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. — Seth Lloyd

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