Odd Perfect Numbers

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

“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“I want to die while you love me,
And never, never see
The glory of this perfect day
Grow dim, or cease to be!”
—Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886–1966)

“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)