Number Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Number.
Top Quotes
“Mathematics”
“Prime number”
“Number theory”
“Negative number”
“Irrational number”
“Fibonacci numbers”
“History of mathematics”
“Mathematics and mysticism”
“e (mathematical constant)”
“Number rules the universe.”
“Wikipedia: Number”
“The control of large numbers is possible and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.”
“[Number is] the commanding and self-begotten container of the eternal duration of mundane concerns.”
“Number*ncyclopedia of Mathematics”
“[A]ll things which can be known have number; for it is not possible that without number anything can either be conceived or known.”
“Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.”
“Pythagoras... assumed as first principles the numbers and symmetries existing among them, which he calls harmonies, and the elements compounded of both, that are called geometrical. ...he says that the nature of Number is the Decad.”
“Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes dissimilar things comparable by reducing them to abstract quantities. For the Enlightenment, anything which cannot be resolved into numbers, and ultimately into one, is illusion; modern positivism consigns it to poetry.”
“For Plato, the first upward steps out of the cave toward wisdom begin with mastery of the arts of number. This put thought on the path of representation and mathematical objectification. Mathematics' more concrete, everyday rule—to serve the needs of power—makes this path the history of oppression.”
“All things, at least those we know, contain number; for it is evident that nothing whatever can either be thought or known, without number. Number has two distinct kinds: the odd, and the even, and a third, derived from a mingling of the other two kinds, the even-odd. Each of its subspecies is susceptible of many very numerous varieties; which each manifests individually.”