Numbers famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
-- A. A. Milne -
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 -
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
-- Aaron Hill -
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from
-- Ab-Soul -
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team
-- Abbi Glines -
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
-- Abdallah II -
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
-- Abe Ajay -
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
-- Abigail Adams -
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
-- Abraham Cowley -
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
-- Abraham Pais -
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.
-- Abraham Robinson -
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
-- Abraham Verghese -
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
-- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch -
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.
-- Achim Steiner -
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible  its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but  the Enchantress of Numbers.
-- Ada Lovelace -
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
-- Ada Lovelace -
In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell -
Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.
-- Adam Brown -
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
-- Adam Osborne -
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
-- Adam Rickitt -
We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
-- Adam Schiff -
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
-- Adam Smith -
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.
-- Adi Da -
The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
-- Adolf Galland -
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it. The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.
-- Adolf Hitler -
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature...
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
-- Adolphe Quetelet -
Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.
-- Adrian Davis -
With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.
-- Adrian McKinty -
I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.
-- Adrian Rogers -
I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
-- Agnes Denes -
They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the principle.
-- Aileen Wuornos -
If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.
-- Ajahn Chah -
If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.
-- Akbar S. Ahmed -
When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
-- Al Franken -
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
-- Al Gore -
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.
-- Al Gore -
There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.
-- Al Michaels -
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
-- Alain Prost -
Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
-- Alan Cohen -
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
-- Alan Cooper -
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
-- Alan Greenspan -
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
-- Alan Lightman -
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
-- Alan Moore -
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
-- Alan Moore -
And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season
-- Alan Parry -
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
-- Alan Rudolph -
I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.
-- Alan Shearer -
The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.
-- Alan Tower Waterman -
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.
-- Alan Vega -
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
-- Alan Watts -
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.
-- Alasdair Gray -
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
-- Albert Camus -
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
-- Albert Camus -
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
-- Albert Camus -
War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.
-- Albert Kesselring -
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
-- Albert Low -
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
-- Albert Speer -
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
-- Alex Berenson -
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.
-- Alexa Chung -
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -
-- Alexander Kotov -
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
-- Alexander Pope -
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?
-- Alexander Waugh -
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.
-- Alexis Carrel -
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
-- Alfie Kohn -
Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
-- Alfie Kohn -
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.
-- Alfred Binet -
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
-- Alfred W. Crosby -
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.
-- Ali Vincent -
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
-- Alice Walker -
I've gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be destructive. I don't want to stomp through the world and be number one. I just want to tread really lightly and not destroy anything. Hopefully, I can try to mend some things. That's my goal.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
-- Alister MacKenzie -
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.
-- Alister MacKenzie
