One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. David Hilbert
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.
I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
The first hypothesis to present itself in this connection, and apparently even the only admissible one, is the supposition that the number of integral molecules in any gases is always the same for equal volumes, or always proportional to the volumes. Amedeo Avogadro
The first hypothesis to present itself in this connection, and apparently even the only admissible one, is the supposition that the number of integral molecules in any gases is always the same for equal volumes, or always proportional to the volumes.
It must ... be admitted that very simple relations ... exist between the volumes of gaseous substances and the numbers of simple or compound molecules which form them. Amedeo Avogadro
It must ... be admitted that very simple relations ... exist between the volumes of gaseous substances and the numbers of simple or compound molecules which form them.
But are made up of a certain number of these molecules united by attraction to form a single one. Amedeo Avogadro
But are made up of a certain number of these molecules united by attraction to form a single one.
The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. Alfred Binet
The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision.