"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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"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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"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, British Scientist

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"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."

Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist

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

Dustin Diamond, American Actor

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

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."

Marvin Minsky, American Scientist

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

Helen Reddy, Australian Actress

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"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."

John Desmond Bernal, Irish Scientist

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"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."

William Collins, English Poet

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"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."

Wilford Brimley, American Actor

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"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."

Michael Scheuer, American Public Servant

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"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort."

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"In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?"

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"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking."

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