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Calculations Quotes

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Expectations, Luck, Calculations

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Ideas, Tables, Calculations

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Probability Theory, Common Sense, Calculations
"Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

Benjamin Graham
Safety, Investing, Miscalculations
Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Mary Ritter Beard
Philanthropy, Results, Calculations

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Isaac Newton
Figures, Ashamed, Calculations

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Henry Petroski
Engineering, Engineers, Calculations

Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Newman
Hero, Made, Calculations
John Henry Newman (1846). “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine”, p.329

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Common Sense, Common, Calculations

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Joseph Joubert
Vices, Virtue, Calculations
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.87

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

Sheryl Crow
Calculations, Presses

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

Ludwig Buchner
Made, Calculations
Ludwig Büchner (1870). “Force and Matter: Empirico-philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered”, p.35

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

John Green
Made, Miscalculations
John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.17, Penguin

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

Jackie Mason
Comedy, Study, Calculations
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Andrew Soltis
Chess, Percent, Calculations

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