Quotes About Numbers

Amicable numbers are two different numbers related in the sense that when you add all their proper divisors together—not including the original number itself—the sums of their divisors equal each other. The numbers—esteemed by mathematicians—are considered amicable because the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110 which, when added together, reach 284. And the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220.

Messages communicated through numbers seldom stick with people

Numbers are disputable and uninspiring

2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how would it be If one 2 was me? Or if the first 4 was you Divided by 2?

permission to hire only a dozen Portuguese; in reality, he was taking nearly forty with him.

Do not imagine the Aeons in a human form, for they are whirling energy vortices. Some Gnostics speak of them in terms of numbers and sounds.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Math is radical!

God delights in odd numbers.

Pure mathematics is the magician's real wand.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

One, two, ... five!" "Three, my lord.

Imagine a universe entirely without structure, without shape, without connections. A cloud of microscopic events, like fragments of space-time … except that there is no space or time. What characterizes one point in space, for one instant? Just the values of the fundamental particle fields, just a handful of numbers. Now, take away all notions of position, arrangement, order, and what's left? A cloud of random numbers.

Remember this rule: Like most reality shows, integers have no point whatsoever.)

Torture numbers and they will confess to anything

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Gazzy: Just Ten? Angel: No. Gazzy: Five? Angel: No.

Bennett clan—Chrissy, three; Shawna, four; Trent, five; twins Fiona and Bridget, seven; Eddie, eight; Ricky, nine; Jane, ten; Brian, eleven; and Juliana, twelve—all

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.