Fixed Dimensionless Number

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or number:

    “Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”
    —F.H. (Francis Herbert)

    “It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world’s total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)