Nature Quote by Arthur Stanley Eddington

“Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)”

— Ellen Klages

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

— A.R. Wise

“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

“Away from the numbers”

— The Jam

“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

“There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs…

— Gavin Maxwell

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Sylvia Nasar

“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to…

— Neil Postman

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and…

— Christoph Wolff

“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive not at…

— Steve Madison

“Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.”

— Simon Mawer