Formulas Quotes

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. - Hermann Hesse

You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them. - Joseph Bologna

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. - Thomas Carlyle

What you really need here, more than the mumbo-jumbo and formulas, you need time. You need a restoration of confidence, and that takes time. - Tony Dwyer

What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner. - David Albright

We've looked at a number of different alternatives and ways to measure rollover predictability. There are rollovers you can create on the test track and there are mathematical formulas. We're still trying to see if one is more accurate than the other and then we'll decide which is fairest to use. - Ray Tyson

We're not where we need to be at all. I don't have any quick fixes or any quick formulas. If we did we did, obviously we'd use it. - Charlie Taaffe

We went through this last year. ... We're not going to get into wild-card formulas. The magic number has got to be zero to celebrate. It is one. ... It's a great feeling to know we're going to play in October, but we've always been taught you're a champion when it gets to zero. - Tony La Russa

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense. - Kenny Guinn