Smallest Number

Famous quotes containing the words smallest and/or number:

    If the subject’s easy we may all be wise;
    What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
    —J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)