#calculation

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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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

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Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation. ↗

— Rich Lowry

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Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

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Calculation never made a hero. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. ↗

— Miriam Beard

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Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored. ↗

— David Suzuki

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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render. ↗

— Max Horkheimer

#humanity #philosophy #progress #rationality #science