Nature Quote by Frank Drake Download Open image “Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.” — Frank Drake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature Never Numbers Prime Prime Number Uses
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don't seem to think there's much benefit to it. The lack… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Right now, there could well be messages from the stars flying right through this room. Through you and me. And if we had the… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach,… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
While NASA talks about 'Are we alone?' as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There's a… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials. — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
