#numbers

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical. ↗

— James Taylor

#find #get #heavy #i #into

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#drum #fact #higher #i #i think

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#between #determination #exact #exact science #founded

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

#complete #equipment #four #mathematician #may

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed. ↗

— Theresa May

#actually #because #deployed #doing #grail

It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. ↗

— Scott McCallum

#ads #campaign #course #happened #hurt

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#large #large numbers #numbers #punished #sound

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. ↗

— Michael Moore

#enemy #grow #insurgents #iraqis #numbers