Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest number, greatest and/or number:

    “If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    ““To my thinking” boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, “the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.”
    “And yours,” said the P.B.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “The best number for a dinner party is two—myself and a dam’ good head waiter.”
    —Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972)