Number Quotes

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.

Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.

But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.

This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.

It would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive.

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc…