Quotes of: Telephone-number Keyword

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

John Cameron

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Spike Jonze

There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.

Anthony Fauci

Success is the number one wish for everyone wishing to prosper.

Auliq Ice

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Allan McNish

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Woody Allen

On 'Sanjay and Craig,' I've had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

Maulik Pancholy

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Shakuntala Devi

Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the Universe, we must find ourselves in the narrow range of possibilities which permit them, no matter how improbable they are. We...

The Constants of Nature: The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe

Realizing its fundamental importance in understanding spectral lines, in atomic physics and in the theory of how light and electrons interact, quantum electrodynamics, Pauli and Heisenberg were determined to derive it from quantum theory rather than ...

Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at th...

The Dispossessed

He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was...

The Fountainhead

Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perp...

I Am Number Four

So… what? You want me to sign my name in blood or something?” “Hmmm,” he said, tapping his finger against his cheek as he looked at the ceiling — the epitome of an overly dramatic thinker. I rolled my eyes. “Why don’t we just seal it wi...

Seeker of Fate

She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two points of her clavicle. Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face. Maybe she should do w...

The Number of Missing

He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember. I didn't want to hear him that night. When I was ready to change I'd change. When life opens up before you, when you don't really ...

The Number of Missing

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, becaus...

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

[...] during one train stop, I watched as another guard with a spirit of empathy, ran out into an apple orchard and picked apples. He carried his jacket like a bag and filled it with apples. The kind German came to our open train window and handed us...

Prisoner of War Number 21860: The World War II Memoirs of Oliver Omanson

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one...

Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

One question that especially intrigues me is exactly when humpbacks started coming to Hawaii and why. In artwork and oral histories of ancient Hawaiians there is no record of humpback whales being there, and there is no evidence that humpbacks were t...

Among Giants: A Life with Whales

At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thou...

Simone Weil