It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all… — Stanislao Cannizzaro Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion;… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
