The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto…

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

— Howard Hodgkin

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers,…

— Ronald Graham

No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small…

— David Brooks

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich…

— Harold Laski

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

— Eric Ries

Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it…

— Richard P. Feynman

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

— Ivars Peterson

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

— Norman Cousins

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg