Number Quotes - page 3

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. (Francis Bacon)
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. View quote
Richard Feynman
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. View quote
David Hilbert
Wisdom is to finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. View quote
Duncan Hunter
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. View quote
Isaac Watts
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war. View quote
Albert Kesselring
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression. View quote
Che Guevara
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. (Eric Hoffer)
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! View quote
Dave Barry
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role. View quote
Robert Kagan
The poetic act consists in suddenly seeing that an idea splits into a number of motives of equal value and in grouping them; they rhyme. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. View quote
Arthur Miller
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. View quote
James D. Watson
... very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. (Sigmund Freud)
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. View quote
John D. Carmack
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The steps in front must be arranged so that there shall always be an odd number of them; for thus the right foot, with which one mounts the first step, will also be the first to reach the level of the temple itself. View quote
Vitruvius
All things... appear to be made up and produced by the coming together of these elements, so that they have been distributed by nature among an infinite number of kinds of things. Hence I believed it right to treat of the diversity and practical peculiarities of these things as well as of the qualities which they exhibit in buildings, so that persons who are intending to build may understand them and so make no mistake, but may gather materials which are suitable to use in their buildings. View quote
Vitruvius
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