Desire Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into…

— Hermann Weyl

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still…

— Charles Babbage

Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in general, mismanaging…

— Shakuntala Devi

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

— Kate Bush

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

— Tom Hodgkinson

“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

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

— Philip J. Davis

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

— Angus Deaton

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

— Andy Rooney