Calculations Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Anonymous

This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the…

— Nathan Seiberg

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

“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

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

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

— Horace

I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is…

— Stephen McCauley

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is,…

— Gustave Flaubert

But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year…

— Anonymous

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

— Richard P. Feynman