Quotes About Prime Numbers

#1. The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#2. Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.

Mark Haddon

#3. It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

Kato

#4. Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They're like sirens. They call you in with their isolated beauty and before you know it you are in some major mind-shit.

Matt Haig

#5. 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?

William Of Ockham

#6. Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Leonhard Euler

#7. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

Mark Haddon

#8. The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

David Deutsch

#9. I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7 ...

Galileo Galilei

#10. Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.

Lev Landau

#11. When one made love to zero
spheres embraced their arches
and prime numbers caught their breath ...

Raymond Queneau

#12. He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world

Yoko Ogawa

#13. Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

Kato

#14. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.

Mark Haddon

#15. Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living.

Mark Haddon

#16. The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Bill Gates

#17. The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.

Kato

#18. God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Paul Erdos

#19. If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

Martin Gardner

#20. Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

Timothy Gowers

#21. A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

Euclid

#22. You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.

Angela Ahrendts

#23. 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant horizon of the oceans, in the New World that I am going to discover, there are surely lots of them.

Christopher Columbus

#24. You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said.
"How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes."
"Exactly," said Mattia. "Which is precisely why you won't see it anymore.

Paolo Giordano

#25. 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

Bertrand Russell

#26. When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

Arthur Phillips

#27. Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.

Saharon Shelah

#28. The largest known prime number is 232582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

Carl Pomerance

#29. If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

Heinz Guderian

#30. I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone's life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done.

Tracy Chevalier

#31. I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.

Gene Luen Yang

#32. Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

Daniel Tammet

#33. If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Darrell Royal

#34. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Leon Kass