Quotes About Numbers

I prefer to think Of numbers not words Their precision Puts me at Ease with the Clarity of it all No grey no vagueness It's all so exact Like a trapeze Act with nothing left To chance Some say numbers are Naive since Things are simply Not that way Just look at pi In its futile try To become a number

Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)

It was a deep green felt that held one thousand slips of paper, numbered 001 to 999.

in the case of the given numbers 1, 2, 3, everybody can see that the fourth proportional is 6, and all the more clearly because we infer in one single intuition the fourth number from the ratio we see the first number bears to the second.

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

Me, personally, I don't really care about as far as being the highest-paid receiver, man. It's a number.

I'd be the first to tell you that stats lie and at receiver more than any other position, stats lie.

My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.

A lot of people will refer to comics by number to me, and I'll realize they're expecting me to remember all the comics by number. And I can't even remember what I ate this morning, let alone which comic was #473!

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

There might be a hidden structure in pi that we simply haven't discovered.

As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

On the second floor he read the numbers on the bronze plaques. The door of no. 17 was open. Valets with striped waistcoats were bringing in the luggage. The traveller had taken off his cloak and looked very slender and elegant in his pinstripe suit. He was smoking a papirosa and giving instructions at the same time.

Twenty-four plus two,           Will

You can't reduce passion and flair and eating ham to numbers, sir!

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes big round numbers.

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Q: Why didn't 4 like 5? A: Because he was odd.

Q: Why is 6 scared of 7? A: Because 7 ate 9 and 10.