#number

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died. ↗

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#cases #controls #direct #each #enzyme

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#few #how #millions #nameless #numbers

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter. ↗

— Nubar Gulbenkian

#dam #dinner #dinner party #good #head

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. ↗

— David Hilbert

#importance #measure #number #publications #rendered

There's this huge number of desperate people. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#huge #huge number #number #people

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#men #numbers #perfect #rare #very

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#advance #attitude #bankrupting #coming #country

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #believe #governments #greater #kept