Odd Perfect Numbers

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

    “The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow—one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man’s art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The forward Youth that would appear
    Must now forsake his Muses dear,
    Nor in the Shadows sing
    His Numbers languishing.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)