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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

— Samuel Johnson

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

— Lisa Randall

Any time things go to infinity in physics, we know we haven't gotten it right.

— Andrea M. Ghez

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

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

— Pablo Picasso

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

— John Tukey

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

— Lord Kelvin

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get…

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Anonymous

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one…

— Richard P. Feynman

“But wait,” he said. “Let’s suppose it returns by advanced waves—reactions backward in time—so it comes back at the right time. We saw the…

— Richard Feynman