Fixed Dimensionless Number

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or number:

“A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.”
—Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940)

“How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)