Number is different from quantity.
Gregory Bateson
QuantityDifferentNumber
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
David Ricardo
WealthLostNationSameQuantity
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell
WorldRulesNumbersSaidQuantity
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
Madeleine M. Kunin
WomenPowerMenTearsQuantityShed
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
Milan Kundera
CultureWordsMadnessQuantity
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.
Alma Gluck
QualityRichGoQuantitySingerHe
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
James Hetfield
SoundQuantityAnythingMakeSheer
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
ValueFallToxicQuantityAbove
Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
David F. Houston
FoodProductQuantityCornFeed
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
George Boole
MathematicsIdeasQuantityEssence
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
B. F. Skinner
WorldYouQuantityComingUpWell
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
QualityBrainyMattersQuantityThan
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James
ValueWorthQuantityProductive
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
Howard Carter
PreparationViewPoorQuantityBeing
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola
QualityWillQuantityCannot
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
Charles Babbage
KnowledgeWillQuantityUniversity
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
Isaac Newton
NatureMatterDependQuantityForces
I like quality over quantity.
Jidenna
QualityOverQuantityLike
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour
KnowledgeMoneyValueQuantityMust
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
William John Wills
ClothesNeverEveryoneQuantityOut
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
Hermann von Helmholtz
NatureLawActionQuestionQuantity
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
FinanceValueGoldSilverQuantity
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
Charles Francis Richter
EnergyQuantityEarthquakeConcept
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
Walther Bothe
EnergyProductQuantityGroundState
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