Odd Perfect Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words odd, perfect and/or numbers:

“It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one’s mind.”
—Barbara Pym (1913–1980)

“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)