On the record
Wise men of the world did believe in this.
These are recorded statements, not hearsay. They are quoted here because the objection most often raised against numerology is that no serious person has ever entertained it.
Témoignages d'estime
Des sceptiques, pour mémoire.
Un prix Nobel de physique. Deux papes. Un chah. Le premier ministre le plus mathématicien de Grande-Bretagne. Et l'athée le plus célèbre d'Amérique, qui ne croyait pas en Dieu mais concéda ceci.
Pandit Sethuraman has revealed to me that mathematics has a fifth facet too. Surprising!
Sir M. Visvesvaraya
Engineer and statesman; Diwan of Mysore
3 September 1946
The science of Numerology is the practical application of the fundamental laws of mathematics to the material existence of man.
Sir C. V. Raman
Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1930
Strange theory — but there is a convincing coincidence of numbers in human life.
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
257th successor of St Peter, Vatican
I am sorry I did not believe it at first. The prediction by numbers is wonderful.
His Majesty Muzaffar al-Din
Shah of Persia
1900
Blind are those who do not see this invisible world of numbers.
Professor Max Müller
Sanskrit scholar and orientalist, Oxford
I do not believe in God or religion; but I am forced to believe in Numerology.
Col. R. G. Ingersoll
Orator and famed American freethinker
I am fond of figures — but I have become more fond of these numbers which shape my life.
Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone
Four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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