#numbers

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #numbers




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


#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.


John Desmond Bernal


#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.


James Thurber


#else #numbers #safety

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.


Kurtis Blow


#art #fence #hustler #i #kicked

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.


Jan Egeland


#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.


Alain de Botton


#authors #because #books #booksellers #destination

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.


John Byng


#appeared #before #could #distinguish #enemy

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.


James Chanos


#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.


Suzanne Fields


#college #college students #companies #continue #draw

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.


Abdallah II


#altered #breakthroughs #challenges #changes #daily