[When asked why are numbers beautiful?]
It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
Stichwörter: science beauty math beautiful beethoven ludwig-van-beethoven mathematics ninth-symphony numbers subjective
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark. He had not written it down, since anything he thought of once would never be lost to him. His first stimulus was, I think, his discomfort at the fact that the famous thirty-three gauchos of Uruguayan history should require two signs and two words, in place of a single word and a single sign. He then applied this absurd principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen he would say (for example) Maximo Pérez; in place of seven thousand fourteen, The Railroad; other numbers were Luis Melián Lafinur, Olimar, sulphur, the reins, the whale, the gas, the caldron, Napoleon, Agustin de Vedia. In place of five hundred, he would say nine. Each word had a particular sign, a kind of mark; the last in the series were very complicated...
Jorge Luis BorgesStichwörter: numbers
Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.
Yōko OgawaStichwörter: society mathematics numbers
It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: numbers
Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight.
Alysha SpeerStichwörter: numbers weight calories pounds
In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.
Ambrose BierceStichwörter: identity numbers name
Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.
Toba BetaStichwörter: satisfaction sacrifice economy numbers finance price
I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.
R.J. AndersonMost people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew
from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people
could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick
glance and declare, “Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.
Stichwörter: humanity mathematics numbers 7 seven
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