I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.
Sir Thomas Browne
Frank's chromosome was now breeding as true as ever. Blood group, creed, colour of skin nothing was proof against it. The numbers with shared consciousness, procreating for all they were worth, trebled every generation.
Brian Wilson Aldiss
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
Flavius Belisarius
One of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
Jorge Luis Borges