Quotes About Calculation

For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature.

How come you know when Easter is?" and he had replied: "Because it's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the twenty-first day of March, obviously." It had been a mistake to add "obviously," because Erman had punched him in the stomach for being sarcastic.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

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.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

The square root sign is a generous symbol, it gives shelter to all the numbers.

The square root sign is a study one. It shelters all the numbers.

A posture of enthusiasm is not always the one best calculated to succeed.

Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine," Viennese player Rudolf Spielmann would later advise. Even

All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran — or Grayson — Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was .

She really should be careful about imputing sordid motives to the First Lord. Not because she doubted that he had them, but because not even Sir Edward Janacek could have only sordid motivations. That would have completely devalued his ability to do such things out of simple stupidity, instead of calculation.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

Aquella arruga reflejaba dos características de su naturaleza: su mal carácter y su perenne perplejidad ante cualquier operación mental más compleja que sumar dos y dos con los dedos.

La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón

medical students at Harvard made significant errors5 when calculating the probability that a patient had cancer

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

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.

After all, it had been…how long since his last sexual encounter? He did some mental math: carry the one, make the seven an eight…multiply by pi…add the square root of sixty-two…do the hokeypokey and turn yourself around…When he saw the final number, he immediately erased the blackboard. No way could it have

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

Ilm Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ishq Hai Diwana-Pan Ishq Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ilm Hai Takhmeen-o-Zan Knowledge said to me, Love is madness; Love said to me, Knowledge is calculation Band-e-Takhmeen-o-Zan! Kirm-e-Kitabi Na Ban Ishq Sarapa Huzoor, Ilm Sarapa Hijab O slave of calculation, do not be a bookworm! Love is Presence entire, Knowledge nothing but a Veil.