Numbers Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
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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?
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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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There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
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I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.
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The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.
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Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.
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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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I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.
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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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Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
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There is safety in numbers.
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These numbers show more fully the impact of the attacks of Sept. 11 on our country, ... We had been anticipating these numbers.
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God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.
