Quotes About Quantity

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death bring forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.

Whenever a physical quantity is measured, the measurement can be characterized by its range, resolution, precision and accuracy, concepts that are often confused.

In robotics, accuracy is not as important as precision, because a sensor measurement does not directly return a physical quantity.

When we speak of someone as "well-read," we should have this ideal in mind. Too often, we use that phrase to mean the quantity rather than the quality of reading. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Too many was too many, but way too many was just right.

And from this followeth another law: that such things as cannot be divided be enjoyed in common, if it can be; and if the quantity of the thing permit, without stint; otherwise proportionably to the number of them that have right.

As regards your chestnuts: you are going to have three measures in the morning and four in the afternoon.

24 percent of something is larger than 73 percent of nothing.

And what does the money machine eat to shit it out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.

After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the less literature there is in it.

Thus the required rigor was found in the application of the concept of number, made formal by divorcing it from the idea of geometrical quantity

A quantity is something or nothing: if it is something, it has not yet vanished; if it is nothing, it has literally vanished. The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera. D'Alembert

by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect.

To the cosmological question, therefore, respecting the quantity of the world, the first and negative answer is, that the world has no first beginning in time, and no extreme limit in space.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one. (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: I love you, Janet.) [They were. -Janet.]

Unfortunately, an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, and love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.

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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.