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#quantity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #quantity




If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.


Charles Francis Richter


#derived #earthquake #energy #introduces #quantity

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.


Manfred von Richthofen


#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.


Charles de Secondat


#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.


Christian Siriano


#be careful #careful #choose #economy #especially

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.


Christoph Waltz


#does #especially #get #i #long

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.


Anthony Hecht


#call #composes #good #his #i

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.


Irving Babbitt


#collapse #day #his #lazy #most

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.


Carl Bernstein


#behind #big #big story #business #context

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.


Leonhard Euler


#answer #ask #believed #concept #hence

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.


Giraldus Cambrensis


#ancient times #been #consideration #divided #division






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