Full Idea
Number is the ruling and self-created bond which maintains the everlasting stability of the contents of the universe.
Gist of Idea
Self-created numbers make the universe stable
Source
Philolaus (On the Cosmos (lost) [c.435 BCE], B23), quoted by (who?) - where?
Book Reference
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.77