The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42! (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”)
Number Quotes
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.
To non-European civilizations the ideas that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power seems never to have occurred.
The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful resource of the human spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being.
‘Perfect numbers’ certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.
It’s really not a number I’m terribly interested in. (When asked about the number of Iraqi people who died in the 1991 “Desert Storm” campaign)
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
I think that I shall never see A number as lovely as a three. For three is just one less than four But, compared with two, it is one more. The charm is the third time; Three is the first odd prime. Thirds are cut by fools like me, But only God is One in […]
From six calamities he will rescue you, from seven no harm will befall you. (Job 5:19)
For his part, Mechain said he feared the “fanaticism” of the people. His fears were not groundless. Thirty-five years before, a young cartographer working for Cassini III had been surveying from a church tower in the Montagnes Noires, not fifty miles away, when he had been hauled down from his ladder and all but hacked […]
