Why do we believe in all matters
the odd numbers are more powerful?
-Pliny the Elder
Even numbers, which belong to the yin,
are weak because they have no center,
while any odd or yang number, when divided,
has a center remaining.
-Jean C. Cooper
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
-Virgil
There is divinity in odd numbers,
either in nativity, chance or death.
-William Shakespeare
What could be more beautiful
than a deep satisfying relation between whole numbers?
How high they rank, in the realms of pure thought and aesthetics,
above their lesser brethren: the real and complex numbers.
-Manfred Schroeder
Prime numbers are what is left
when you have taken all the patterns away.
-Mark Haddon
