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)

    “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)