Quotes About Numbers

Five is a Four letter word.

It was this 'ripening' that the slaveholding classes of North American seemed to fear above all else: the dawning consciousness of enslaved persons that they had an inborn right to be free--and that they might take further steps to make it happen, because they already had superior numbers. All they would need in the future was a little more knowledge, a little more discipline, and some more key allies among the whites.

I was an accountant ... I rewrote the world through numbers. The world still had the same number of boats and trees and bottles of wine and loaves of bread after I finished my calculations, and yet all of a sudden people found themselves broke, or suddenly rich.

In baseball, we count everything," Babe said. "Baseball's a math teacher's dream for teaching kids arithmetic. It's numbers and statistics. It's long division and decimals. I

EIGHT HUNDREDY FIVE!

Six hundred and NINE! Six hundred and FORTY-TWO!

THIRTY?" Tsunami shouted. "I have THIRTY BROTHERS?" "Well, thirty-two," he said. His gaze caught Moon watching, and he wrinkled his snout in an amused way.

There are about thirty of us," Turtle said with a shrug. "THIRTY?" Tsunami shouted. "I have THIRTY BROTHERS?

they got numbers 20 guns apart.

That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really people, as though they were only things, numbers, animals, perhaps, but not really people.

The key may be to keep the bright light of public attention shining. According to a study by the American Psychological Association, the reported numbers of assaults increase an average of about 44 percent when campuses are under formal scrutiny. Afterward, though, they sink back to their original levels, indicating that some schools provide a more accurate picture of sexual assault only when forced to do so.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

He who believes in the struggle for existence and in the principle of natural selection, will acknowledge that every organic being is constantly endeavouring to increase in numbers; and thus if any one being vary ever so little, either in habits or structure, and thus gain an advantage over some other inhabitant of the country, it will seize on the place of that inhabitant, however different it may be from its own place.

If you're humble before the numbers, the rewards are significant.

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it.

The Greeks were the real inventors of what we call math, because-again-they were the first people to treat numbers and their relations as abstractions rather than as properties of collections of real things.

But what G. Cantor posits as the defining formal property of an infinite set is that such a set can be put in a 1-1C with at least one of its proper subsets. Which is to say that an infinite set can have the same cardinal number as its proper subset, as in Galileo's infinite set of all positive integers and that set's proper subset of all perfect squares, which latter is itself an infinite set.

but let's emphasize once more here that G. Cantor is, like R. Dedekind, a mathematical Platonist; i.e., he believes that both infinite sets and transfinite numbers really exist, as in metaphysically, and that they are reflected in actual real-world infinities.....

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a

Quatro bilhões de pessoas nesta terra, e minha imaginação é como era. Não se dá bem com grandes números.