Quantity Quotes - Page 14

• Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Fall, Toxic, Variables

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Passion, Film And Television

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.460, Macmillan

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• The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

  John Dalton

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Certain, University

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.90, Modern Library

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• For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

  Alexander Monro

  Blood, Brain, Disease

  Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”

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• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Men, Discovery

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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• 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 Clerk Maxwell

  Determination, Science, Law

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Science, Space, Principles

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• I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Obnoxious, Cooks

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

  Henry Fielding

  Sex, White, Desire

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

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• Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Years, Silence, Meditation

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• You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Quality

  Source: deadline.com

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Film, Makers, Experiments

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• 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

  Reading, Sunday, Perfect

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Mean, Numbers, Next

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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• Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

  Jim Dunnigan

  Military, War, Enormous Quantities

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• My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Science, Impact, Ecosystems

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• Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Agreement, Differences, Numbers

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• It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wonderful, Diets, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Real, Land, Shadow

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Mean, Numbers, Finite Number

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• I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Oysters, Sauce, Bread

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Confessions of Fitz-Booddle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan”, p.171

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