Prime Number Quotes

26 is my favourite number.

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

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

44 is a number I really like.

My favourite number is 11.

Fifty is a pretty cool number.