Calculations Quotes - Page 2

• I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Superstitions, Logic

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

  Rumi

  Expectations, Heaven, Negotiation

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• Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

  Roger Penrose

  Book, Thinking, Views

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Love You, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Fate

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

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• My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.

  Darynda Jones

  Errors, Warning, Tacos

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Sky, Two, Glasses

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• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Sleep, Science, Night

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• We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

  Kofi Annan

  Economic Globalization, Faces, Driven

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.68, Routledge

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Math, Noble

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

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• I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

  John C. Reilly

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Weakness

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Common Sense, Experience

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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• No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Data, People

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• [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

  Eye, Hypocrisy, Shining

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 8 (1844)

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• 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

  Spiritual, Sorry, Book

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• 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 Churchill

  Eye, Games, Two

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• Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Talking, Long, Lasts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.107, North Point Press

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• But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

  Albert Camus

  Men, Two, Knowing

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

  Novak Djokovic

  Trying, Attention, Pay

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• Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté.
  Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Thinking, Curves, Engineering

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• The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.

  John Herschel

  Country, Mean, Science

  "Memoir of Francis Baily".

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• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sorry, Book, Knowledge

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• [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

  Hermann Bondi

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

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