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

Isaac Newton, English Mathematician

Numbers, Weight

"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

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

James Thurber, American Comedian

Numbers, Safety

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

Galileo Galilei, Italian Scientist

Numbers,

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

Gilbert White, English Scientist

Numbers, Summer

"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

Numbers,

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."

Gregg Easterbrook, American Author

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."

Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist

Numbers, Space, Universe

"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

Numbers, Woman

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Numbers, Writing

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"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

First

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

Information

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

Future

"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."

Time

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

Art

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

Life

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."

"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."

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

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

Explore more quotes by Gregory Bateson

"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

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

"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."

"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

"Number is different from quantity."

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

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

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

"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."