#quantities

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared. ↗

— James Lind

#continued #could #course #days #having

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

#between #determination #exact #exact science #founded

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#because #bigger #larger #make #pharmacist

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #before #beings #each #faces

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#faces #human #many #more #person

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#armaments #army #building #came #could

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

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

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

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

#biological #biological weapons #chemical #expecting #gas