Numbers Quotes
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The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.
Iamblichus
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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.
G. H. Hardy
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Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
S. Robson Walton
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I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."
G. H. Hardy
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When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?
A. Meredith Walters
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You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
Quentin Crisp
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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.
Nate Silver
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I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.
Hal Blaine
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It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.
Emile Coue
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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
A. R. Ammons
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Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.
Van Jones
