Fixed Number

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or number:

“A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.”
—Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940)

“The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)