"That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public……" — Thomas Huxley

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be… — Benjamin Franklin
• Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu
• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the… — Francis Bacon
• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics]… — Werner Heisenberg
• The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific… — John Herschel
• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything… — Nikola Tesla
• ...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come… — Garry Kasparov
• If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it… — Nikola Tesla
• Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,… — Camille Flammarion

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