Fixed Dimensionless Number

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or number:

    “The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
    —Donald Davidson (b. 1917)