Building Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

— Daniel Kahneman

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

— Lord Kelvin

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of…

— Robert Indiana

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater…

— Martin Gardner

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

— Achim Steiner

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that…

— Mark Twain

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was…

— Denis Hayes

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to…

— Louise Erdrich

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

— Kate Crawford

“Let’s pause a moment to think about how much $1 trillion really is. Such large-scale economic matters are often discussed in terms of trillions,…

— Neal Boortz

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of…

— Geoff Davis