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Quotes About Number

Everybody in the CIMS database has a number, from minus 15 to plus 15. If you're plus 15, you're on the right of the political spectrum. If you are minus 15 you are on the left of the political spectrum. You are a pinko, leftie, environmentalist, academic probably
~ Mark Bourrie
That becomes clear if you try to define the objects and things which supervene in each class. Odd and even, straight and curved, number, line, and shape can be defined without change but flesh, bone, and man cannot. They are like sbub nose, not like curved.
~ Aristotle
The smallest number, strictly speaking, is two.
~ Aristotle
forty-one was a "very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I'd hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
From Addy in Berlin came the news that all social gatherings had been banned except for weddings and funerals, where the number of people could not be higher than twelve. (I wonder if that's counting the bride and groom, Cole's mother said, and his father joked: How about the corpse?)
~ Sigrid Nunez
The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number.
~ Simon Singh
In an analog machine each number is represented by a suitable physical quantity, whose values, measured in some pre-assigned unit, is equal to the number in question.
~ John von Neumann
Among the other papers I bought at London Airport was the current number of The Beholder. Thought it is, I am aware, not without its merits and even well thought of in some circles, it leaves me with an abiding sense that it is more given to expressing its first prejudices than its second thoughts. Perhaps if it were to go to press a day later....
~ John Wyndham
Age is just a number. That is to say, your age should not discourage you from pursuing and realizing a new dream, vision or aspiration. Thus, disregard your age. For, it does not matter. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Is not the fraction which you know, in relation to their totality, what a single number is to infinity?
~ balzac honore de xv
His attorney, a pig-headed Yankee named Stoney, allowed himself to register his shock. "Too high?" He glanced down at the number Warren had written across the top of the appraisal. "That's absurd! It isn't high enough.
~ Barbara Bretton
What's the speed limit for sex? Sixty-eight. Because at sixty-nine you have to turn around.
~ Barry Dougherty
In 'Fable 1,' the number of features was more important to me than what the features did. And as a games designer I've come to realize that it's not the number of features you have, it's the way that those features interact.
~ Peter Molyneux
Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.
~ John Walsh
I've dubbed for as many number of films as Uttam Kumar has acted in. However, dubbing artistes are never given a recognition and are expected to be conditioned to that too.
~ Kharaj Mukherjee
Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It's harder to find defensive players.
~ Nick Saban
These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.
~ Divyanka Tripathi
Look at New York and the number of crimes out there. Every big city has crime. Bombay is the biggest city of India. So, naturally, all crimes in Bombay get banner headlines.
~ Raj Thackeray
I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college.
~ Markelle Fultz
I've been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.
~ Joe Harris
Barham you may be, but there is one thing you have been which is certain!' He paused to let this sink in. My lord did not seem to be greatly impressed. 'Oh, a number of things!' he assured his guest. 'Of course, there are a number of things I have not been, too.
~ Georgette Heyer