Greatest Number Quotes

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Facts

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw

Success, Greatest, Secret

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin

Greatest, Artist, Ideas

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin

Happy, Greatest, Human

And what is the greatest number? Number one.
David Hume

Greatest, Number

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Happiness, Truth, Greatest

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

Greatest, Through, After

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Good, Greatest, Wrong

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham

Happiness, Greatest, Number

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Design, Greatest, Matter

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

History, Mind, Greatest

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells

Happiness, Best, Greatest

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.
Moby

Good, Greatest, Try

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
Mary Matalin

Nature, Good, Greatest

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