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Quantities Quotes by Gregory Bateson
- 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…
- There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that…
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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… — 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
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo
- Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and… — John W. Campbell
- Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons
- For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be… — Theodor Boveri
- The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is… — Hippolyte Taine
- Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma. — Richard St. Barbe Baker