Facts Quote by Charlie Munger

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

— John Maynard Keynes

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

“Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life…

— Morris Kline

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

— Cheryl Strayed

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods…

— Le Corbusier

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

— Keith Devlin

“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in…

— Kevin Guilfoile

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

— Albert Einstein

It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of…

— Manly Hall

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel