Quotes About Numbers

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Very few of us in our saner moments believe that the particular postulates that some logicians have dreamed up create the numbers - no, most of us believe that the real numbers are simply there and that it has been an interesting, amusing, and important game to try to find a nice set of postulates to account for them.

We did all the standard camp numbers: Down By The Aegean, I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa, This Land is Minos's Land.

I'm stupid, Leo mumbled. Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite. He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. When he aligned the last ring, something inside the sphere clicked. The door swung open. Leo beamed at his friends. That, good people, is how we do things in Leo World. Come on in! I hate Leo World, Frank muttered. Hazel laughed.

Ella, just stay here. Stay safe. Safe, Ella repeated. Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson. What? Percy said. Oh... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary— ROOOF. How do you feel about pulling a chariot?

Leo unfurled the little strip of paper. It read: THAT'S YOUR REQUEST? SERIOUSLY? (OVER) On the back, the paper said: YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS ARE: TWELVE, JUPITER, ORION, DELTA, THREE, THETA, OMEGA. (WREAK VENGEANCE UPON GAEA, LEO VALDEZ.)

Soren had been given the number 82-85. He couldn't remember what his previous number had

A significant difference between Pacioli's book and Treviso Arithmetic is that Pacioli dealt with negative numbers. The concept of negative numbers was new in Europe, and Pacioli is believed to have provided the first printed explanation.

Edgar understood numbers, and he could not let that pass. "Wasn't Jesus born in the year one?" he said. "He was," said Degbert. He added snootily: "Every educated man knows that." "Then he must have had his first birthday in year two." Degbert began to look unsure.

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That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

No one really knows the cat population in America. Some conservative guesses put it in the millions.

the claims of incredible numbers of wasicu, an old tale raised once more.

Two hundred and four if you count my marriage.

Are all things quantifiable, and all numbers fraught with poetic possibility?

Far from being amicable, the numbers seem to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection, let alone this wonderfully intimate one. The Professor was right. My birthday and his watch had overcome great trials and tribulations to meet each other in the vast sea of numbers.

The mathematical order is beautiful precisely because it has no effect on the real world. Life isn't going to be easier, not is anyone going to make a fortune, just because they know something about prime numbers.

The square root sign is a generous symbol, it gives shelter to all the numbers.