"Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers"

-- Marcus du Sautoy

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“After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.”

Source : Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com
“I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.”
“Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17”
“I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.”
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”
“A large part of California is a sensual state. It has a huge range of geographical features and in addition to the deserts and the mountains and the huge coast line. The fact that we don't have harsh seasons, like they have in the East, means you can have convertible cars. There's more sunshine, per year here, and it affects people psychologically and physically. I think California has always been an attractive place for many, a lot of strange cults have been here over the years. Again, it's an experimental place.”
“Numerical precision is the very soul of science.”

Source : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.2, Cambridge University Press
“Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?”

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