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Quotes About Number

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
~ Baruch Spinoza
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
~ Serge Lang
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?... Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223... And pray, why would this number interest us? It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
~ Abraham Verghese
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
~ Aesop
Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get the idea it would be cute to carve my dad's cell-phone number on a rock in the middle of Syrtis Major? He hates it when people call me on his phone." Kit gave Nita a resigned look. "Sorry," he said, "I couldn't resist.
~ Diane Duane
I say its realism, bearing on mind Harold Rosenbergs wicked remark that realism is one of fifty-seven varieties of decoration. What about the term experimental, which is often applied to your work? Its not quite a hostile remark, but it does contain within it the notion of the failed experiment. Something like Bone Bubbles was, yes, an experiment and although I wouldnt suggest it was wholly successful, I thought it worth publishing. Its something I do along with a number of other things.
~ Donald Barthelme
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
~ Donald Cargill
Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God
~ Pythagoras
I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.
~ Nola Ochs
I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
~ Bon Scott
There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.
~ Jerry Coleman
Three is a natural result for the number of dimensions. It is natural because it is a number close to one. The closer to one, the better, the more in line with our expectations.
~ Andrew Thomas
Avogadro's constant (also Avogadro's number) n. [CHEMISTRY] the number of atoms or molecules in one mole of a substance, equal to 6.023 × 1023. Avogadro's law (also Avogadro's hypothesis) n. [CHEMISTRY] a law stating that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules.
~ Angus Stevenson
Whenever I deal with heartbreak, my therapy is to listen to all the love songs I can to purge my system - and I change my phone number so I won't be tempted to call or keep expecting him to call back.
~ LeToya Luckett
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
~ Aristotle
Being a midfielder, I need to get up and down, whether it's to get back and defend or get away from my opposite number. Extra effort in training makes all the difference.
~ Aaron Ramsey
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
~ Sigmund Freud
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'
~ Sherri Shepherd
When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
~ Kinky Friedman
My mind is so busy that my thoughts and ideas have to take a number and get in line.
~ Robert E. Miller
In Revelation, John frequently used the number seven, indicating completion or perfection.
~ Robert J. Morgan
sufficiency of artillery depended not only on the number of guns provided but on the width of the front attacked. The guns-per-yards-of-front ratio was crucial; to expand the latter, it was necessary to increase the former, or the infantry would go over the top without adequate support.
~ Robin Neillands