Thomas Huxley Quotes

Whenever you can, count.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

I always liked numbers.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Programming is all about numbers.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.