Top 100 Quotes About Calculation
#2. I shook to my core, my soul curving around her protectively as my mind strove to determine the logical calculation that could make her mine. I wanted to be hers as much - more - than I wanted to possess her, when I knew damned well that neither was possible.
Tammara Webber
#3. You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
William Kirby
#4. If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.
Jane Austen
#5. He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm.
William Faulkner
#6. It takes calculation to win a duel against a reptile, and you've always been impatient.
Jim Butcher
#7. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
David Einhorn
#8. Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.
Dada Bhagwan
#9. Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#10. There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#11. When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.
Jorgen Leth
#12. The atonement is a miracle, and miracles are rather to be accepted by faith than measured by calculation.
Anonymous
#13. Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#14. The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be ...
Antoine Lavoisier
#15. As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
Alexander Alekhine
#16. LI QUAN Overcome your opponent by calculation.
Anonymous
#17. However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
Sheryl Crow
#18. As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.
Emile Zola
#19. And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.
Michael Chabon
#20. A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation.
Medard Boss
#21. Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
George Eliot
#22. As scientists the two men were contrasting types - Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.
Chaim Weizmann
#23. A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.
David Morrell
#24. Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.
Theodore J. Kaczynski
#25. We admire a faultlessly dressed woman without realizing that this deceptive simplicity hides a world of calculation.
Madge Garland
#26. In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
Jeff Goodell
#27. Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.
Dale Renton
#28. Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.
Simon Blackburn
#29. What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
Ludwig Von Mises
#30. Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?
Stanislaw Ulam
#31. Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.
Charles Schwab
#33. The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
Adolphe Quetelet
#34. Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Martin Heidegger
#35. Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Todd Gitlin
#36. Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.
Jennifer E. Smith
#37. I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
#38. The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.
Victor LaValle
#39. Each time we add an extra piece to the calculation, we find that the calculation time required to solve it doubles. Very soon the total time required becomes stupendously large, and even the fastest computers on Earth can be easily defeated. These are what we mean by 'hard' problems.5
Anonymous
#40. Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
Camille Flammarion
#41. If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter." ...
Catherine Marshall
#42. Is a feeling, not a calculation. It is perception. One
Simon Sinek
#43. I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.
Robert Charles Wilson
#44. [S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles Dickens
#45. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
Kurt Vonnegut
#47. I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.
John Grier Hibben
#48. Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes.
Scopes Trial
#50. The aim of Mathematical Physics is not only to facilitate for the physicist the numerical calculation of certain constants or the integration of certain differential equations. It is besides, it is above all, to reveal to him the hidden harmony of things in making him see them in a new way.
Henri Poincare
#51. Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness.
Peter Sloterdijk
#52. Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
Rich Lowry
#53. If the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third ...
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#54. Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#55. Don't you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing - like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists?
W. Somerset Maugham
#56. Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
John Henry Newman
#57. Logic. Rationality. Reasoning. Thought. Analysis. Calculation. Decision-making. All this is within the mind of a human being, correct? Humanity
Code Well Academy
#58. ...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation.
Jose Sevilla Ho
#59. All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
#60. Grace comes particularly where calculation has come to an end.
Craig Keen
#61. The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#62. If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#63. Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill
#64. Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
Henri Bergson
#65. If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That's hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That's a good thing.
Charlie Munger
#66. Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#68. Every type of socialism is unworkable because economic calculation is impossible in a socialist community.
Ludwig Von Mises
#69. We must have a permanent force, not a force that is constantly fluctuating and sliding from under us as a pedestal of ice would do from a statue on a summer's day, involving us in expense that baffles all calculation - an expense which no funds are equal to.
-George Washington
Editors Of Boston Publishing
#71. The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.
Waseem Latif
#72. You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#73. The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Marquis De Custine
#74. A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
Thomas Jefferson
#75. In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#76. The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.
Winston S. Churchill
#77. This love for everyday things,
part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
part a literary calculation
Billy Collins
#78. They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
George Will
#79. Comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Garry Kasparov
#80. Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don't add up. They don't even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing. Nothing makes sense until we realize that experience does not accumulate like money, or memories, or like years and frailties.
Marilynne Robinson
#81. Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
Margaret Fuller
#83. Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
Plato
#84. Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations.
Derek Wall
#85. I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.
Juliette Drouet
#86. Prunella took to the ballrooms of London in the spirit of ruthless calculation of a general entering a battlefield.
Zen Cho
#87. Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
#88. It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Samuel Johnson
#89. We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.
Neil Postman
#90. A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
Edward Teller
#91. I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#92. The first man to understand the extraordinary magical power of applying mathematical calculation to things in nature was an Italian called Galileo Galilei.
E.H. Gombrich
#93. Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."
--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz
#94. But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.
Laura Brown
#95. I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
Thomas Jefferson
#96. The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss and genuine ignorance can determine valid or not, not those whom of which scrutinize it
Aaron Ozee
#97. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.
Richelle Mead
#98. To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other ... Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.
Michel De Certeau
#99. In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.
Franklin Pierce
#100. The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.
Pat Robertson
