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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein
education numbers science

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

Albert Einstein
wise numbers teacher

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Albert Einstein
rich numbers men

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

Albert Kesselring
cutting numbers war
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of a... by Albert Low

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Albert Low
simplicity truth numbers

It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis.

Albert Pujols
what-matters cities numbers

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

Albert Pujols
careers games numbers

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Albert Speer
important racism numbers

Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by numbers or by the language in which the text is written, every library translates the chaos of discovery and creation into a structured system of hierarchies or a rampage of free associations.

Alberto Manguel
numbers discovery book
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are... by Alberto Manguel

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Alberto Manguel
space numbers book

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

Alden Ehrenreich
numbers people thinking

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Aldous Huxley
light numbers people
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is... by Aldous Huxley

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Aldous Huxley
race time numbers

Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Aldous Huxley
ignorance responsibility numbers
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the numb... by Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Aldous Huxley
moral-behavior quality numbers

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Aldous Huxley
humanity numbers men
Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story... by Alec Baldwin

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

Alec Baldwin
individual stories numbers

As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

Aleister Crowley
self-confidence numbers men

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

Aleksandar Hemon
decision numbers moving

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

Aleksandar Hemon
islands home numbers
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