“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious,… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We are living through a remarkable time where we're translating this investment that we've made in cancer science to new treatments. And… — Tyler Jacks Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You do not have to be in large numbers to win / win must have courage in the heart — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
As a human being I am personally saddened, as I have a great deal of respect for the large number of British… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups.… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image