Quantity Quotes
520 quotes by 425 authors
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We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation,…
— W. Phillip Keller
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The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.
— Antony Flew
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Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful,…
— Alexis Carrel
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In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment,…
— Michael Savage
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The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead…
— Milton Friedman
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A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.
— Haim Harari
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In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
— Paul Valery
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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite…
— Oliver Heaviside
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Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body…
— Isaac Newton
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...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next,…
— Simon McBurney
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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely…
— George Berkeley
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Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus…
— Aldous Huxley
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Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even…
— Arthur Frederick Saunders
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put…
— Hesiod
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Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical…
— Ada Lovelace
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There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes…
— Anthony Hecht
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Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that…
— Leopold Kronecker
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To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity…
— Marco Polo
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