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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 between each integer and the next. -- Gregory Bateson
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. -- John Tukey
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. -- Lord Dunsany
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. -- Emil Theodor Kocher
You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket. -- Kary Mullis
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. -- Dan Aykroyd
Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur. -- Arjun Rampal
Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer. -- Henry Spencer
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. -- Walter Savage Landor
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck. -- Gretchen Rubin
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. -- Hans Blix
I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food. -- Portia de Rossi
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 from a pharmacy supply house. -- Sydney Brenner
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. -- Adam Ferguson
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories. -- Paul Auster
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 books are now going to be available in other forms. -- Fred Saberhagen
Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes. -- Gretchen Rubin
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. -- James C. Maxwell
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy. -- Ben Stein
Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe. -- Stephen Hawking
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious. -- Daphne Oz
My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends. -- Jean Reno
in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities. -- Pam Houston
The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates. -- Bernardo Houssay
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. -- Oscar Wilde
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate -- Al Pacino
We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things. -- Marvin Minsky
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa. -- Johannes Kepler
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! -- Napoleon Hill
Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities. -- Scott Cunningham
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma. -- Richard St. Barbe Baker
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough. -- Pauline Kael
They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared. -- James Lind
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. -- George W. Bush
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse. -- Franz Grillparzer
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. -- Aldous Huxley
As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat. -- Ivan Pavlov
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. -- Thomas Carlyle
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself. -- Simon Hoggart
But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich. -- Eva Herzigova
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. -- Josef Albers
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. -- Amiri Baraka
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. -- John T. Flynn
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. -- Cargill Gilston Knott
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. -- Jean Rhys
The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum. -- Charles Glover Barkla
I am so happy and grateful now - that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis. -- Bob Proctor
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
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? -- William Allingham
Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities. -- Leonhard Euler
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities. -- John Cage
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student. -- Rufus Choate
This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues. -- Stewart Brand
Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers. -- Max Planck
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. -- Lorrie Moore
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 action. -- Sigmund Freud
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities. -- Emile Zola
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 Emancipator. -- Edward Abbey
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made. -- John Hanning Speke
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through. -- Derek Landy
I believe in binging once a week. This takes care of my cravings. I don't eat huge quantities when I binge, but I eat different varieties of food. -- Shilpa Shetty
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels. -- Nikola Tesla
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session. -- Marshall McLuhan
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere. -- Theodore Sturgeon
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities. -- Robert Bringhurst
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 serum using large animals. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
My sense is that we are looking at unbelievable quantities of wealth moving from the control of the kingdom of darkness, to the control of the Kingdom of God. -- C. Wagner
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities. -- John Ashbery
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 serum using large animals -- Jules Henry
Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense. -- Lewis Thomas
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. -- Alan Greenspan
Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power. -- Sun Tzu
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for? -- Robert Frost
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 of the actual infinite can be demonstrated. -- Georg Cantor
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, have become a necessity for civilized men. -- Alexis Carrel
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. -- Robert Fitzgerald
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 in a personal sense, can please others. -- Arthur Frederick Saunders
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 all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. -- Gregory Bateson
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 sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities. -- Aldous Huxley
Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals. -- Elaine Morgan
People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess." -- Joel Derfner
Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it. -- Frank Gehry
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it. -- Melissa Bank
But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation. -- John Chamberlain
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion. -- Theodor Adorno
Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere. -- Katie Cleary
The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. -- James Goldsmith

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