Insight Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

— Andy Rooney

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe…

— Leonhard Euler

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

— May Sarton

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll…

— Andrew Schneider

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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

— John Maynard Keynes

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest…

— Fairfield Porter

“People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.”

— Sylvia Nasar

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Angus Deaton

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

— Joan Didion