#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. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#constantly #detected #faintest #farther #find

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

#dwell #greatest #guide #may #migrations

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#book #closely #cube #dark #even

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#force #mediocrity #more #numbers #only

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#end #escape #life #numbers #rachel-ward

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#bank #bank account #card #cause #credit

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#coming #ever #i #i think #kids

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record? ↗

— Doug Collins

#floor #guy #i #i think #look

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. ↗

— William Collins

#pure #strong #sweetly #warmly