Charlatans Quote by Ada Lovelace

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret…

— Peter Greenaway

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

— Kate Bush

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two…

— Josh Lawson

How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

— Donald Knuth

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

— Franz Kafka

“Modern culture has disenchanted the world by disenchanting numbers. For us, numbers are about quantity and control, not quality and contemplation. After Bacon, knowledge…

— Stratford Caldecott

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.”

— Sylvia Nasar

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human mind, and…

— P. Carey Reid

“Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into…

— Hermann Weyl