Calculate Quote by John C. Baez

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough…

— Antoine Lavoisier

People calculate too much and think too little.

— Charlie Munger

“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

— Paul Feyerabend

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

— Anonymous

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

— Sherman Kent

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

— Pablo Picasso

“When an official report in the UK was commissioned to examine the mathematics needed in the workplace, the investigator found that estimation was the…

— Jo Boaler

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is…

— Aristotle

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you…

— Conrad Wolfram