#numbers

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bill clinton #clinton #comfortable #final #going

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art form #audience #could #extraordinary #film

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ↗

— James Thurber

#else #numbers #safety

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#day #discover #human #human mind #into

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#casually #completely #coordinating #different #different way

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. ↗

— Amy Adams

#down #high #high school #i #musical

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it. ↗

— Scott Adams

#best #capitalists #could #face #friends