Quantities Quotes

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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many… — Peter Davenport
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. — George W. Bush
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great… — Edward Abbey
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in… — Sigmund Freud
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slimeâ€”oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping… — Diana Wynne Jones
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes
The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties… — Galileo Galilei
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of… — Jules Henry
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity… — Georg Cantor
As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat. — Ivan Pavlov
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they… — Andrew Solomon
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine… — Alan Turing
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased… — Sydney Brenner
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly… — Fred Saberhagen
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with… — William Stanley Jevons

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