There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. Charles Babbage
Nature has only a limited number of procedures at her disposal and that the kinds of procedure which Nature uses at one level of reality are bound to reappear at different levels. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. William Henry Bragg
If you believe in the future life and, instead of preparing for it, sell it in order to buy this world, then that is folly! You do not normally sell two things for one; how can you give up an endless life for a limited number of days. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Good mission statements focus on a limited number of goals, stress the company's major policies and values, and define the company's major competitive scopes. These include:. Philip Kotler
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. Jerzy Kosinski