Odd Perfect Numbers

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

    “Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

    “Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “Green grow the rushes-O
    What is your one-O?”
    —Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 2–3)