Mathematics Quote by David Hume Download Open image “And what is the greatest number? Number one.” — David Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematics
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there. — Tim Purpura Copy Share Image
The Answer to the Great Question Of...Life, the Universe and Everything...[is] Forty-two. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a prime number… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“How in the world did I ever find you?” Mackenzie Winters “Math class.” Brandon Knight” — Bella Jeanisse Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the essential language… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
