Quotes About Numbers

Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power

About $4 trillion, Trump said, even more—possibly $5 trillion. Cohn had a chart that showed it was $2.6 trillion.

Since the World began it is certain that there have existed fifteen people.

Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279,' said Clever Clare.

El horario de la oficina era el ataúd de cristal dentro del que prefería seguir sujeto, como una Bella Durmiente del bosque de los números, preservado de la vida y sus manzanas envenenadas.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Ivar appreciated Berning's reconciliation. The message from Ernst & Ernst was that if Ivar decided he didn't like some numbers, they easily could be changed. As the old joke went, when an accountant interviewing for a job is asked, "What is two plus two?" the best answer is not "Four," but "What do you want it to be?

The reported numbers of MPD alter personality states are given great play by critics. As usual, these critics rarely consult the research. Although cases with dozens or scores of alters have been reported, the mode is 3 and the median typically 8-10 (see, e.g., Putnam et al., 1986; Coons et al., 1988; Ross, Norton, and Wozney, 1989f; Kluft, 1991).

Complex numbers can be written in standard form In this form, they can be combined using the operations defined for real numbers, together with the definition of the imaginary unit i: . The conjugate of a complex number z is denoted . If , then

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

Trishiffany said. "And your child was the 129,285,656,702nd." "Do you know how many hours I spent sneaking around here in the middle

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game Boy and PlayStations and a TV, she gave me educational software on our family computer for Math and stuff.

When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.

When we use a measuring tape, we are using a system of numbers that is human invented. What are the birds using? And further, how are they storing it in memory? To be stored in memory the measurements have to be encoded in some form and that form has to have an internal consistency to it. In other words it has to possess the same kind of structural integrity as our system of mathematical measurement.

Frank Ryan comments that The microbes that kill people, particularly those that kill huge numbers in sweeping epidemics, follow, in many ways, the same universal law of predator and prey. It is part of this complex gestalt that the balance is shaped by the behavior of the prey. If the prey moves—if it changes, if its numbers increase or decrease, if its ecology alters—the predator must move with it.29

The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.

I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

As Sageman completed his analysis, the season of Ramadan jumped out of his numbers. The number of insider attacks had approximately tripled during Ramadan, then returned to its previous rate.