Numerical Value Quotes

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

In terms of segments, I think we've done 1,200.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.

Number is different from quantity.

I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.

The primary factor is proportions.

But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny gesture could deny it. One footprint, one atom. You didn't have to be a genius. You didn't even have to know that was what you were doing. You made a mark. You changed something. It said, "A human being passed here." And changed zero to one.

One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.