Quantities Quotes

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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity… — Gregory Bateson
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold… — Robert Frost
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But… — Michio Kaku
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at… — Ludwig von Mises
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell
Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the… — John W. Campbell
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You… — Jim Dunnigan
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and… — Matthew Simmons
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected… — Theodor Boveri
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old… — William Crawford Williamson
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of… — Hippolyte Taine
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of… — Nikola Tesla
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma. — Richard St. Barbe Baker

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