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Quotes About Numbers

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
~ Mark Twain
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
~ Joan Cusack
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
~ Jim Cramer
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
~ George W. Bush
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.
~ Fran Lebowitz
It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.
~ George W. Bush
History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.
~ Sunny Menon
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
~ Donald Byrd
I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
~ Zoe Kazan
Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
~ Carl Sandburg
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
~ Marilyn Manson
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
~ Paul Klee
Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.
~ Abby Morel
It's only in Algebra that two negatives make a positive
~ Charmaine J. Forde
Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.
~ Leonhard Euler
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
~ William Gilmore Simms
Were textbooks to disappear tomorrow, and with them the treasures that they contain, it would take centuries to rediscover the calculus, but only days to recover our debts, and with our debts, the numbers that express them.
~ David Berlinski