Sentence examples for infinite quantity from inspiring English sources

Our modern conception of "the economy" is built upon what once appeared to be an infinite quantity of oil.

If she was more curt with her own family than with a homeless man, this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically, where it was most needed.

Democritus also had a strong rational argument for postulating a strictly infinite quantity of atoms: only thus could he exclude the existence of atoms that specifically differ from each other.

Firstly, this research clarifies the potential energy of the heat sources using the dead state as the thermal equilibrium state of the finite heat sources instead of the infinite quantity of the environmental temperature.

When the skirmish was begun, and the sun risen, and a strong wind set in from the mountains, he gave the signal of onset; and heaving in an infinite quantity of fiery matter, filled all their rampart with it, so that the flame being fed by the close timber and wooden palisades, went on and spread into all quarters.

One of the most arresting is the almost total absence of the physical sciences there is only one physics essay, a piece of gee-whiz cosmology of the sort beloved by popular-science publishers, being an explanation of the "bubble universe" hypothesis, which holds that there are many, possibly an infinite quantity of universes out there besides our own.

Second, the theory should be renormalizable; i.e., it should not contain nonphysical infinite quantities.

I have seen deserts, mountains and infinite quantities of ice, but the jungle is the only place where I seemed to stay in a constant state of amazement.

Moreover, supergravity theories are more likely to be free from various inconsistent or "nonphysical" infinite quantities that usually arise in calculations involving quantum theories of gravity.

Galileo concluded that "we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another".

This paper describes a research-based teaching interview, aimed at encouraging an especially talented student, Ben, to reflect on his thinking about infinite quantities.