Odd Perfect Numbers

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

    “This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room,
    How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
    Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
    In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
    Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.”
    —Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)