Quotes on Quantity

Number is different from quantity.

Author: Gregory Bateson

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Author: Gregory Bateson

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Author: Gregory Bateson

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Author: Alice James

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

Author: William King

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

Author: Leonard Maltin

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

Author: David Ricardo

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

Author: Nassau Senior