"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."

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"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."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

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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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"Early numbers are always wrong."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

Numbers, Wrong

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

James Thurber, American Comedian

Numbers, Safety

"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."

Humphry Davy, British Scientist

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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

Numbers, School, Water

"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."

Amy Adams, American Actress

Numbers, School

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

Dustin Diamond, American Actor

Numbers, Writing

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

Scott Adams, American Cartoonist

Numbers, Universe

"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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"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"

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"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."

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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."

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"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."

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"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."

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"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."

"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."

"Early numbers are always wrong."

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

"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."

"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."

"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."

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

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round 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."

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"All experience is subjective."

"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."

"We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future."

"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"

"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."

"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."

"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."

"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."

"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."