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"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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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."

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."
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"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."

"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."

"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
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