Numerical Expression Quotes

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.