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Quotes About Sum

The smallest perfect number is 6: 6 = 1 + 2 + 3.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
There are lots of deficient numbers that are just one larger than the sum of their divisors, but there are no abundant numbers that are just one smaller than the sum of theirs.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
That's right! The sum of the factors of 220 is 284, and the sum of the factors of 284 is 220. They're called 'amicable numbers,' and they're extremely rare.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The summation of a person's life is the sum of what they held in their affections. This natural gravity field, this natural gravity well of belonging, which finds a particular coloration according to the way we're made, is the secret keep to compassion.
~ David Whyte
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
El estado del mundo es, sencillamente, la suma total de las interacciones de sus habitantes.
~ Yehuda Berg
Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows... But...nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
So, who asked you to come?' 'Nobody.' '[...] So you're telling me that you rang the bell on the off-chance that a regular glamour-puss like me might be at home?' 'That just about sums it up.' 'You're a lucky man
~ Yukio Mishima
Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.
~ Julian Assange
Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.
~ Jen Hatmaker
It's all i have to bring today this and my heart beside this and my heart and all the fields and all the meadows wide be sure to count should i forget someone the sum could tell this and my heart and all the bees which in the clovers dwell
~ Emily Dickinson
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I also hope to challenge financial thinkers to improve their theories by testing them against the impressive evidence that suggests that the price level is more than merely the sum of the available economic information, as is now generally thought to be the case.
~ Robert J. Shiller
I suppose you could call that a personality. Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. This personality constantly changes, usually for the worse, but sometimes surprisingly for the better, and it is this personality that is the real object of motorcycle maintenance.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
~ Srinivasa Ramanujan
But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.
~ Robert Fulton
The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.
~ William John Macquorn Rankine
Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.
~ Eric Hirzel
If someone was to tell you that the sum of all the numbers was minus one twelfth I suspect you might imagine the person was mildly crazy. Well, this is actually an established mathematical fact: the sum of all the numbers is minus one twelfth (or, in decimals, -0.083).
~ Andrew Thomas
We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.
~ Andy Miller
A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.
~ Jill Scott
Wizarding is technical to me. When you get something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, that feeling is magic to me. That's a kind of alchemy.
~ Jamie Parker
It is a famous theorem first proved by the great (Italian-) French mathematician Joseph L. Lagrange in 1770 that every number is, indeed, the sum of four squares.
~ Roger Penrose