Numbers Quotes
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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
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It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.
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The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.
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If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.
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Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!
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Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
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Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
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Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.
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These are strong numbers, but they are not conclusive numbers.
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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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It makes you wonder how this was discovered, because these are some pretty big numbers here. You can't have complete confidence in these numbers yet. I don't think management completely has the situation in their grasp.
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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
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Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
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In the shorter term where there has been some concern on those numbers there could be little bit of a relief rally.
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I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.
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It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.
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The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
