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

"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."

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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