Quotes About Number

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense.

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

There are a nearly inconceivable number of synapses in the human brain – roughly five times as many as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy!

An algebraic integer of degree two is simply a root of a quadratic polynomial of the form X2 + aX + b with a, b ordinary integers.

A3 0 is an additive identity: 0 + a = a for any number a. That is all you need to know about 0. Not what it means – just a little rule that tells you what it does.

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.

Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?

on this basis it developed a sexagesimal system of calculation by sixties, which became the parent of later duodecimal systems of reckoning by twelves.

What?" said Kyle. "How can a number have a past tense?

Doing something really profound and personal is bigger than a fad. It's not some passing fancy. It's always number one.

One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free. ...Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum mechanics would shrivel up when 137 was finally explained.

Leonhard Euler

A thorough inspection of the birthday suit revealed a number of holes.

I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.