Quote by John G. Shobris

“Numbers are the smallest unit of meaning I know. Words are the next largest unit of meaning, and in spite of the confusion they…

— Beverley Brenna

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of…

— Sheri S. Tepper

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

— Usama Fayyad

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem…

— John Wesley Powell

“The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our…

— Rachelle Doorley

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the…

— Voltaire

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act,…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“The window counter considered numbers often. How many tons of air did the universe contain, for instance. She wanted to know the average number…

— Meia Geddes

“Have you ever noticed how many adjectives you have to describe your intellect?” “Not nearly enough. The dictionary should have more words for expressing…

— Ruby Lionsdrake

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

— Henry David Thoreau