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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.


Kary Mullis


#because #bigger #larger #make #pharmacist

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#been #before #beings #each #faces

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#faces #human #many #more #person

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.


Daniel Ortega


#armaments #army #building #came #could

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

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.


Gregory Bateson


#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.


Hans Blix


#biological #biological weapons #chemical #expecting #gas

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.


Sydney Brenner


#became #chemical #chemicals #chemistry #enough

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.


Adam Ferguson


#artist #attention #confine #finds #greater

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.


Robert Fitzgerald


#different #either #french #french language #great






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