Quotes About Quantities

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.

Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a balanced equation.

Una persona de setenta kilos de peso contiene, entre otras cosas: — 45 litros de agua — Suficiente cal para encalar un gallinero — Suficiente fósforo para 2.200 cerillas — Grasa para alrededor de 70 pastillas de jabón — Hierro para un clavo de 2 pulgadas — Carbono para 9.000 minas de lápiz — Una cucharada de magnesio

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

There are more than three hundred trillion cells in the human body. Counting ten cells per second, it would take more than a million years to count them all.

Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics.

Because values on a clock face increase in a clockwise direction, we expect greater quantities to be indicated by greater arcs in a clockwise direction

dwarf galaxies, have as few as ten million stars. The biggest, the giants, have been estimated to contain in the region of 100 trillion.

What specially excited him when his graduate student Daniel Linzer, who did the original experiments, showed him his results was that the rogue protein occurred in large quantities in the SV40-infected cells, suggesting it must be doing something important, and that it was interacting specifically with the viral oncogene, large T antigen. What's more, his team had found exactly the same protein also in uninfected fetal cells.

Natural laws are statistical truths, which means that they are completely valid only when we are dealing with macrophysical quantities. In the realm of very small quantities prediction becomes uncertain, if not impossible, because very small quantities no longer behave in accordance with the known natural laws.

Materialistic and idealistic philosophies have both failed to appreciate the nature of mathematics, as accepted at the present time. Mathematics is neither a description of nature nor an explanation of its operation; it is not concerned with physical motion or with the metaphysical generation of quantities. It is merely the symbolic logic of possible relations, and as such is concerned with neither approximate nor absolute truth, but only with hypothetical truth.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Los matemáticos manejan grandes cantidades, pero nunca suyas…

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.

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.

if the market system had not arisen naturally, it would have been proclaimed the greatest invention in human history. For market competition leads a self-interested person to wake up in the morning, look outside at the earth and produce from its raw materials, not what he wants, but what others want. Not in the quantities he prefers, but in the quantities his neighbors prefer. Not at the price he dreams of charging, but at a price reflecting how much his neighbors value what he has done.

In the realm of very small quantities prediction becomes uncertain, if not impossible, because very small quantities no longer behave in accordance with the known natural laws.

Probability does not refer to the evolution of matter in itself. It relates to the evolution of those specific quantities we interact with.

In particular, like all physical quantities, volume may not assume arbitrary values, but only certain particular ones, as I described in chapter 4. The list of all possible values is called, recall, the "spectrum." Hence, there should exist a "spectrum of the volume" (figure 6.2).

Sâttvika people are very thoughtful, quiet, and patient. They take food in small quantities, and never anything bad.

Don't be afraid to play with combinations and quantities of spices to create your own bespoke spice rub.

Last year, the chip industry produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.

The SI specifies seven fundamental measures: length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.