Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

Numbers are a fearful thing.

Euripides

There is safety in numbers.

Francis Collins

A lot of science doesn't require big "ns" but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at interventions that are not going to be either killing you or making you live forever - they're going to have some tweaking on the outcome - you need big numbers or you don't have enough power.

Francis Crick

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

Grover Norquist

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

Graham Greene

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Gifford Pinchot

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Georgina Chapman

My family is my number one priority.

Harriet Martineau

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...

Hugh Downs

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Howard Zinn

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Hannah Arendt

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Guy Finley

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

George Bernard Shaw

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

Erich Leinsdorf

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Barry McCaffrey

be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.

Sarah Wright

This year is small, but I don't think the numbers matter.

What everyone will want to see is the numbers and the structure of the business.

Their (AARP's) numbers simply do not reflect the true amounts paid by seniors for their medicines.

The numbers that you give me are very impressive.

The numbers reflect the tip of the iceberg.

The numbers look good, but it's two quarters in a row that analysts are skeptical about how they're reporting their numbers.

The numbers look fine. It is a reassuring set of results.

The numbers he's put up this year, any way you slice them, are unbelievable.

The numbers don't stack up (on rental property), end of story.

The numbers didn't do much to slow the rally down,

The numbers are very significant for the markets,

The numbers are the numbers, ... and they are a very precise measurement of a very vague concept.

Tom Jones

The numbers are disappointing when it's all said and done, if we reduce (traffic) by 15 percent.

The numbers are better than what we've seen on average, but it's still early.

The numbers are an indicator. The programs are more tangible.