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)

“A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)