Quantity Theory

Famous quotes containing the words quantity and/or theory:

    Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)