Quantity Quotes - Page 28

• The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Chance, Lifetime

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• The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

  J. P. Guilford

  Ideas, Numbers, Chance

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• Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Latin, Greek, Different

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• The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

  Thomas Malthus

  Sex, Passion, Age

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.62, eKitap Projesi

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• Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Men, Order

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• A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Science, Invention, Fixed

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Health, Yellow

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Thinking, Demand

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable consequence of the concepts "totum" and "pars". Unfortunately, however, this "axiom" is used innumerably often without any basis and in neglect of the necessary distinction between "reality" and "quantity", on the one hand, and "number" and "set", on the other, precisely in the sense in which it is generally false.

  Georg Cantor

  Reality, Hands, Numbers

  "Cantor's Grundlagen and the paradoxes of Set Theory". Paper by William Tait, www.researchgate.net. June 2001.

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• We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pieces, Littles, Infinite

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.7, Rodale

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• Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

  Nikola Tesla

  Electric Power, Oil, Needs

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

  John T. Flynn

  Quality, Etc, Nra

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• Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Water, Gold, Limits

  Marianne Wiggins (2003). “Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Space, Choices, Arbitrary

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

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Energy, Introducing

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• It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Character, Men

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• In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Practice, Quality

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• On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are laced, and shirts, socks, and ties are bought in quantity. I met one father who said to me, 'Brother Monson, I want you to meet my son.' Pride popped his buttons; the cost of the clothing emptied his wallet; love filled his heart. Tears filled my eyes when I noticed that his [the father's] suit was old, his shoes well worn; but he felt no deprivation. The glow on his face was a memory to cherish.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Brother, Memories, Father

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• In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was incomparably more flammable material within the Earth. Over the many thousands of years that have passed, the quantity of flammable material has doubtless decreased.

  Mikhail Lomonosov

  Years, Mountain, Earth

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• Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly under the Water, and that either by the descending of the Waters to another part of the Earth by the alteration of the Centre of Gravity of the whole bulk, or rather by the Eruption of some kind of Subterraneous Fires or Earthquakes, great quantities of Earth have been deserted by the Water and laid bare and dry.

  Robert Hooke

  Fire, Earthquakes, Water

  "The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke". Book by Robert Hooke, 1705.

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• Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

  Raymond Kendall

  Country, War, Years

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• Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

  Artur Schnabel

  Children, Quality, Notes

  Artur Schnabel (1970). “My Life and Music”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Years, Innovation, Quality

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• Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

  Josef Albers

  Independent, Color, Harmony

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.44, Yale University Press

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• In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

  David Easton

  Animal, Thinking, Air

  David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

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