Quotation on Numbers
1.
There is safety in numbers. --- Anonymous
2.
Numbers are intellectual witness that belongs
only to mankind. ---Aristotle
3.
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn
raving mad men into polite humans.—Philip. J .Davis.
4.
It is not once nor twice but times without
number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. --- Aristotle
5.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
– Rene Descartes
6.
God created the natural numbers and all the rest
is the work of man.--- Leopold Kronecker
7.
All the effects of nature are only mathematical
results of a small numbers of immutable laws. – Pierre Simon Laplace.
8.
The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful
resource of the human spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not
being.--- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
9.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.--- Isaac Newton
10.
Zero is the number of object that satisfy a
condition that is never satisfied. But as never means- in no case. I don’t see
that any progress has been made. --- Henri Poincare
11.
Wherever there is a number, there is a
beauty.—Diadochus Proclus
12.
All was numbers.—Pythagoras
13.
Numbers was the substance of all things.---
Pythagoras
14.
Number rules the universe. – Pythagoras
15.
Number if the ruler of forms and ideas, and the
cause of gods and demon. --- Pythagoras
16.
Women have a passion for mathematics. They
divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at
least five years to the age of their best friend. – Marcel Achard
17.
I am x years old in x2 years.-- Augustus De Morgan
18.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on
numbers. --- Plato
19.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious
ways. But he uses a base counting system and likes round numbers. --- Scott
Adams
20.
I would play with numbers in a way that other
kids would play with their friends. --- Danniel Tammet.
21.
Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I
like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say 13 divided by 97,
I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seems to wasp
and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything
down. --- Daniel Tammet
22.
I think my numbers speak for themselves. ---
Jack Youngblood
23.
Torture numbers, and they will confess to
anything. --- Gregg Easter Brook
24.
Life is not measured by the numbers of breaths
we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --- Anonymus
25.
Anyone can count the seed in an apple, but only
God can count the number of apples in a seed—Robert H Schuller
26.
The intelligence of the creature known as a
crowd; is the square root of the people in it. --- Terry Pratchetl
27.
The
primary source of all mathematics is the integers. --- Herman Minkowski
28.
The trouble with integers is that we have
examined only the small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really
big numbers, ones we can’t get our hands on or even begin to think about in any
very definite way. So maybe all the action is really inaccessible and we are
just fiddling around. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find
where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not
evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred
thousand dimensions.--- Ronald Graham.
29.
The study of the infinite is much more than a
dry, academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the Absolute Infinite is a form
of the soul’s quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an
awareness of the process brings enlightenment. – Rudy Rucker
30.
We think of the number Five as applying to
appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever – to five fishes, five children,
five apples, five days--- We are merely thinking of those relationships between
those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of
any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable fear of
abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise of it. ---
Alfred Norsh Whitehead.
31.
Never dismiss the intuition of the ancients, who
believed that number is the essence of all things. Number is the secret source
of entire cultures, and men have been killed for their heresies and seductive
credos. The whole history of mathematics is subterranean, taking place beneath
history itself, a shadow- world scarcely perceived even by the learned. --- Don
De Lillo
32.
There can be no dull numbers, because if there
were, the first of them would be interesting on account of its dullness. –
Martin Gardner
33.
A person who can within a year solve x2
– 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician. --- Brahmagupta
34.
I love to count. Counting has given me special
pleasure down through the years. I can think of innumerable occasions when I
stopped what I was doing and did a little counting for the sheer intellectual
pleasure of it. --- Don De Lillo
35.
Number is the bond of the eternal continuance of
things. – Plato
36.
I had been to school most of the time, and could
spell and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table
up to six times seven is thirty five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any
further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in
mathematics, anyway.--- Mark Twain
37.
While the abacus extended the usefulness of the
number system and made possible elaborate calculations, it had the distinct
advantages of being a thing quite apart from the mind that used it. The
training of mind which uses an abacus is not complete, because the process of
combinations which such a mind uses are mechanical and external. The abacus
served useful purpose in that stage of civilization when the mind of a man has
not attained a number system which is detached from all mechanical devices and
yet possesses all the virtues that mechanical devices contributes. --- C H Judd
38.
The theory of numbers is the last great
uncivilized continent of mathematics. Out of this theory as out of Africa,
there is always something new. For the last 2500 years amateurs as well as
professionals have explored it yet there is every reason to expect that future
discoveries with or without the help of machines will far surpass those of
past. ---E T Bell
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