#calculation

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#circumstances #complicated #human #human society #mathematical

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

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

— Fran Lebowitz

#chances #done #i #identical #lottery

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

#back #calculation #consequences #frankly #gift

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

— Rich Lowry

#calculation #likes #naked

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

— Christopher Monckton

#head #i #i can #standing #transfer

Calculation never made a hero. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#hero #made #never

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

#ago #book #calculations #called #comes

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

[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

#expression #eyes #hypocrisy #hypocrisy