Quotes About Calculation

the entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such peril mattered, that it did more than just make sense but demanded his suffering and sacrifice.

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you... ... ...and that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means that they are so small you don't have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.

As yet, he was barely thirty, and had he been able to judge his own case as keenly as he could have judged the case of another, he would have known that a short absence might probably raise his value in the estimation of others rather than lower it. But his personal annoyance was too great to allow of his making such calculations aright.

George Vavasor cursed the City, and made his calculation about murdering it. Might not a river of strychnine be turned on round the Exchange about luncheon time

I'd hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.

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.

The problem looks so straightforward because it is based on the one piece of mathematics that everyone can remember – Pythagoras' theorem: In a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.

appointed vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, calculated that God made the world on October 23, 4004 BC, but he was able to further refine Ussher's arithmetic, proving that God got started at exactly 9:00 that morning, presumably after His breakfast.

Discounting every punctuation mark and every space—which any printer knows occupy just as much time to set as does a single letter—there are no fewer than 227,779,589 letters and numbers.

The moment anyone begins making calculations or comparisons, they cease to live for the moment: the present becomes a mere pointer to the future, and all sorts of questions tend to arise.

Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.

The Peterson Foundation calculates that, since 2010, fiscal uncertainty—i.e., gridlock—might have slowed America's GDP growth by one percentage point and stopped the creation of two million jobs.

Dokonce badatel v oboru potÃ…â"¢ebuje kalkula?ku a pár minut, aby vám spo?ítal rozdíl hlasitosti mezi 53 decibely a 87 decibely.

the marketplace is capable only of calculating exclusive costs; that is; excluding all possible costs that interfere with profit. Leadership of society requires the calculation of inclusive costs. To invoke the marketplace, as if calling upon the Holy Spirit, is to limit ourselves to the narrow and short-term interests of exclusion. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—that there is not time, previous to action, for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness. This is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by Christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments.

Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those numbers on which important calculations or inferences depend. They have no idea of the patience shown by a Berzelius in determining atomic weights; by a Regnault in determining coefficients of expansion; or by a Joule in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat.

He notes that the output of neurons is digital: an axon either fires or it doesn't. This was far from obvious at the time, in that the output could have been an analog signal. The processing in the dendrites leading into a neuron and in the soma neuron cell body, however, are analog. He describes these calculations as a weighted sum of inputs with a threshold.

Perspectiva unei catedre la reîntoarcere nu m? încînt? deloc:am uitat c? sunt de meserie profesor ÅŸi apoi n-aÅŸ putea s?mai pun suflet într-o carier? anost? ÅŸi stupid?. Va fi pentrumine o hot?rîre dramatic? s? reîncep o via?? care n-a intratnici în calculul ÅŸi nici în iluziile mele. De aceea, nu ÅŸtiu cînd o voi reîncepe.

In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.

He must be about fifty-seven or fifty-eight,' said Harriet, who seemed to have been doing a little calculation. 'It will be nice to see dear Theo again.' 'On the threshold of sixty,' mused Dr. Parnell. 'That's a good age for a man to marry. He needs a woman to help him into his grave.

One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists had made mistakes. He was acutely aware of his own tendency to make errors in calculation.

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