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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."
"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."
"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
"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."
"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."
"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."
"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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