The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42! (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”)
Number Quotes
Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numbers, and those who don’t.
The Lord said “Feed my sheep”, he did not say, “Count them”
The larger the sample size (n) the more confident you can be that your sample mean is a good representation of the population mean. In other words, the “n” justifies the means.
Chipping away at gigantic unproved postulates. Investigating the properties of common whole numbers and ending up in the wilds of analysis. Intoxicating theorems. Nagging little symmetries. The secrets hidden deep inside the great big primes. The way one formula or number or expression keeps turning up in the most unexpected places. The infinite. The infinitesimal. […]
Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.
Lots of people can’t count to 10. They are usually the ones in front of you of you in the supermarket express lane.
When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.
To think that two and two are four, And neither five nor three, The heart of man has long been sore, And long ’tis like to be.
