Quotes About Calculation

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.

Adventism was born because of a wrong calculation about the Second Coming . . . fuelled by an intense, emotional, highly personal, fervent, and ultimately right desire to be with Jesus.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

is measured; thus, the departure between the meridians of T and T' is the number of miles corresponding to the distance Tn in

The whaleman's rule of thumb was that, before diving, a whale blew once for each minute it would spend underwater. Whalemen also knew that while underwater the whale continued at the same speed and in the same direction as it had been traveling before the dive. Thus, an experienced whaleman could calculate with remarkable precision where a submerged whale was likely to reappear.

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.

These include the beliefs that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment; that in fact human judgment cannot be trusted, because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity, and unnecessary complexity; that subjectivity is an obstacle to clear thinking; that what cannot be measured either does not exist or is of no value; and that the affairs of citizens are best guided and conducted by experts.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

running his dividers across a map of the Atlantic and calculating how many leagues his ships could cover each day.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

The most important use to which he had put his memory was that he had stuffed an unprecedented number of mathematical constants and equations into it. Most of us have very few mathematical constants in our mind, perhaps only the up-to-twelve-times multiplication table. Johnny had put in his mind layers and layers of algebraic verities. These were the explanation of his extraordinary powers of mental calculation.

But to grasp my theme in its true proportions, it is necessary to do more than calculate. It is necessary to brood upon these magnitudes, to draw out the mind toward them, to feel the littleness of your here and now, and of the moment of civilization which you call history.

But the true shape of love lies where one closes one's eyes to the embarrassment of it, and as if jumping into surging waves, screams the words of love. In truth, one can only stay silent if one's love is weak. It's egotistical. They're calculating something. They are quivering in fear about the responsibility that will come later.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Punta Rassa," Emma repeated. "That's a pretty name. Does it mean anything?" "It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can't even figure that high.

As Nick Ellis (2009: 153) put it, 'The language calculator has no "clear" button.' In learning something new, we build on what we already know.

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat

Euler's constant, which is ? = 0.577215664901532 …. After ? and e, ? is perhaps the most important mathematical constant not appearing in elementary arithmetic.

partial sum is correct within an error less than the first term neglected.

the tangent function is periodic with period 180°,

The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The

Greg weighed up her personality, figuring how to make his play.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.