Number Sequence Quotes

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.

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'.

Change the rule and you will get a new number.

At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do I need to dial 9 I say Yeah. Especially if it's in the number. You can try four and five back to back real quick.

The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8?

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.