Faces Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity…

— Hermann Bondi

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

— Marvin Minsky

“Numbers are the smallest unit of meaning I know. Words are the next largest unit of meaning, and in spite of the confusion they…

— Beverley Brenna

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

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

— Robert Delaunay

Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces…

— Nicholas of Cusa

“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you...…

— Mark Haddon

If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size",…

— Alexander Grothendieck

“Your world can be as large or as small as you make it.”

— Sandr Golden

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

— George Santayana

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a…

— Gregory Bateson