Advocating Quote by Paul Erdos

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

— Timothy Gowers

If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even…

— Martin Gardner

“All prime numbers are one more or less than a multiple of 6.”

— Matt Parker

“An anonymous sponsor has put up the cash via an organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a bounty on prime numbers: $100,000 for…

— Matt Parker

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

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

“I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean - have you ever…

— Rick Riordan

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

— Frank Drake

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

— Carl Pomerance

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

— Kato

“I’m not sure what prime numbers have to do with anything,” I say in a gentle voice. “Prime numbers have to do with everything.…

— Julie Buxbaum

My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a…

— Daniel Goldston

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

— Bill Gates

Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that…

— Paolo Giordano

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