Number is different from quantity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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 those houses had a number.
But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.