Ancient Quote by Christopher Columbus

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

— Charlie Chaplin

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved!

— Billy Graham

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime…

— Bertrand Russell

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?

— William of Ockham

“For example, to a mathematician, the number 28 is really 2×2×7, which is known as the prime decomposition of 28. Prime numbers are, in…

— Matt Parker

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of…

— G. H. Hardy

I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that…

— Galileo Galilei

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very…

— Mark Haddon

Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.

— Shakuntala Devi

“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether…

— Mark Haddon

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

— Carl Pomerance