Books Quote by Anatole France

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

“The book was rife with abstract diagrams that blurred the boundaries between art, mathematics, and pornography. Triangles of stacked numbers, columns of those thorny…

— Douglas Wynne

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Numbers are unique, there is nothing like them and this book reveals something of their mysterious nature. Numbers are familiar to everyone and are…

— Peter Michael Higgins

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

“I own most of the book on my list, in an ancient paperback edition that doesn't count.”

— Susan Orth

“Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.”

— Walter Isaacson

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out…

— Jonathan Swift

“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Science has whittled that number down over time, so now it’s generally assumed that four is actually the ideal number at which we can…

— Michael Bungay Stanier