Life Quote by Mark Haddon

“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

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all…

— Mark Haddon

“Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.”

— Mark Haddon

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

— Shakuntala Devi

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

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

— Timothy Gowers

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

— Frank Drake

“Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They’re like sirens. They call you in with…

— Matt Haig

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

— Charlie Chaplin

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

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant…

— Christopher Columbus

“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all…

— Paolo Giordano