Top 1200 Large Numbers Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

You can't make just foot-tapping numbers or take inspiration from Western music. Such songs won't work.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

I am so conscious of my image because I have a daughter and have said no to offers for item numbers down South.

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

I've never been that bothered by numbers; the history of cycling evolves and follows its own course.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything and have an impact.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate. We win governors' chairs up and down the line. So I believe if you want to retain the White House, if you want to see Democrats do well across the board, I think our campaign is the one that creates the large voter turnout and helps us win.

There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game.

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers.

You know me, I'm not big into the numbers. I just like to go out there and have fun and have a ton of energy.

1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.