We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton
A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone. — Euclid
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. — Rene Descartes
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
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes. — Aristotle
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes. — Paul Erdos
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation. — Pythagoras
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians. — James R Newman
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. — Gottfried Leibniz
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? — Pliny The Elder
Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper. — Shakuntala Devi
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head. — Bo Burnham
Prime Quotes
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. — Dalai Lama
Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king. — Fred Hollows
How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God. — Lottie Moon
You have to be odd to be number one.
The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep. — Neville Chamberlain
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination. — John Diefenbaker
My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country. — Theresa May
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
The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd number is divided into the following: prime and incomposite, composite, and a third intermediate class (mediocris) which in a certain way is prime and incomposite but in another way secondary and composite. — Isidore of Seville
In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out. — Svante Arrhenius
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
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. 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
Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers. — Kato
Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added. — Lev Landau
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
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. — Bill Gates
Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers — Marcus du Sautoy
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data. — Timothy Gowers
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
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
The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. — Naji Sabri
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary. — Carl Pomerance
Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does. — Lucio Russo
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number. — James Arthur
We differ with the Israeli Government about a number of things, and they know that. In the past, I have discussed with Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon these issues. The fact that we differ about something or the other shouldn't be a matter of strain. — Thabo Mbeki
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
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
My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner." — Daniel Goldston
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning. — Lewis Mumford
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato
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
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
...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad. — Louise Rennison
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