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

Amy Adams, American Actress

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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

Numbers, Space, Universe

"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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"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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"Early numbers are always wrong."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

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"We rest our case on the production numbers."

Mel Brooks, American Comedian

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"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

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"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

Isaac Newton, English Mathematician

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

Galileo Galilei, Italian Scientist

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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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"Logic is a poor model of cause and effect."

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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."

Time

"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains."

Education

"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."

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"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."

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

Quantity

"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?"

Nature

"Number is different from quantity."

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"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future."

History

"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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