Quote by Robert Burnham

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

— Hippolyte Taine

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the…

— Charles Francis Richter

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers…

— Charles Francis Richter

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

— Lord Kelvin

“Do numbers hold spiritual significance? Perhaps they do. For me, the most powerful numbers are two and six because when you multiply those numbers,…

— Darren Main

“Even a good, inveterate atheist like physicist Richard Feynman once said of the fine structure constant, “All good theoretical physicists put this number up…

— Sam Kean

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

— Lewis Carroll

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is…

— Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

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

— Daniel Kahneman

Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…

— Ada Lovelace

“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