Quotes About Numbers

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

I still believe that my main purpose is to better inform the world. Sometimes that's done with infusions of my opinion, sometimes it's done with numbers, and sometimes it's done through writing a profile or, in this case, doing a sit down interview. But I feel that's my job.

We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

I wish I had a million in the bank. I like round figures. I am a round figure.

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

The history with wide receivers, I follow it pretty close. I look at Art Monk, I look at Lynn Swann, I look at Michael Irvin, and it's becoming very, very difficult to judge the skill of a wide receiver in today's game. But what else can you judge it on but the numbers? The numbers, they do tell a story.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming into your sport globally, you're not quite there.

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.

una cifra, pensó cuando volvió a quedarse solo, siempre es aproximativa, no existe la cifra correcta, sólo los nazis creían en la cifra correcta y los profesores de matemática elemental, sólo los sectarios, los locos de las pirámides, los recaudadores de impuestos (Dios acabe con ellos), los numerólogos que leían el destino por cuatro perras creían

Every man who could be found and trained had to be committed to the struggle for, even at the end of 1914, the notion that a lack of momentum could be compensated for by weight, or numbers, still held sway in military circles.

I can count

Good, according to Stella, with the books. He was well-read. He hand-sold, getting to know patrons and recommending books they might like. He's a throwback, said Stella. A real bookseller, in an industry that had stopped caring about story and only cared about numbers.

They were arranged by their original numbers, the numbers they had been given at birth. The numbers were rarely used after the Naming. But each child knew his number, of course. Sometimes parents used them in irritation at a child's misbehavior, indicating that mischief made one unworthy of a name. Jonas always chuckled when he heard a parent, exasperated, call sharply to a whining toddler, ''That's enough, Twenty-three!

KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some

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