Quotes About Numbers

Does six strike you as a good number?" I didn't know what he was getting at. "Six isn't exactly a lucky number," I hedged. "If I were looking for a good number I'd have to go up to seven." I shrugged. "Or down to three.

the loftier peaks of mathematics did not delight me. I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Indeed, in the huge opening battles to come, hundreds of thousands of German youths would hurl themselves at the French, British and Russian lines singing patriotic songs, shouting slogans and dying in terrific numbers.

mean proportional, i.e., if b and c are two given positive numbers, then x is the mean proportional of b and c if it satisfies the statement "b is to x as x is to c." Or, in algebra which

Time. It was just a human invention. Like numbers. Like measuring things. Just something humans invented to make life a little easier, to order life into manageable blocks, to ease their minds around unmanageable things, to help them with infinity.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.

the only useful thing we did for the average citizen by then was to hand out official crime numbers for insurance claims.

If they swapped jokes, she asked them what the Zero said to the Eight: "Nice belt!

suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

those registered to the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

those registered to the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

those registered to the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

those registered to the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

those registered to the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

And all those counted totaled 603,550.

and his division numbers 74,600.

and his division numbers 54,400.

and his division numbers 57,400.

and his division numbers 46,500.

and his division numbers 59,300.