306 Quotes About Number

I can calculate everything but not the number of moments in a second.

For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a number called the "googol," which is good and large and which was promptly taken up by writers of books and articles on popular mathematics. Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.

He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

Take a walk around a hospital counting the wireless radiation antenna systems and you will be shocked at how large the number is!

We save numbers, not always to keep in touch, but also to know whose call to avoid.

Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number.

Sometimes you have to delete the pictures, delete the number and accept the lesson and move on.

0 is not a number. 0 is a number container - in fact, the exclusive container for all non-zero numbers. It is the balance point of all of mathematics.

Beetles were made from 1938, in pre-war Nazi controlled Germany. The few actual civilian cars that were produced were used as staff cars and propaganda tools. It is a well known fact that not one of the original civilian orders for the cars were ever fulfilled, at least until the 1960’s when a law suit brought about a settlement for a small number of successful claimants.