“While thinking of that which you are so earnestly bent on avoiding, your hand mechanically follows the strongest idea, and obeys the imagination rather than the intention… —William Hazlitt
"Number occupies a strategic position in this conflict, because it is simultaneously the most generalized basis of thought and that which demands most abruptly the question of its being." — Alain Badiou
See also Mitchell & Webb's "Numberwang" sketch.