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Numbers Quotes
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
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"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
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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'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."
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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."
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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."
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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."
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"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."
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"We rest our case on the production 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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"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
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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."
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"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."
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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."
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