Quotes About Pi

I prefer to think Of numbers not words Their precision Puts me at Ease with the Clarity of it all No grey no vagueness It's all so exact Like a trapeze Act with nothing left To chance Some say numbers are Naive since Things are simply Not that way Just look at pi In its futile try To become a number

There might be a hidden structure in pi that we simply haven't discovered.

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279,' said Clever Clare.

I don't like the idea of your getting involved. I told you what happened to the last PI who was hired. You're placing yourself in danger." She shrugged. "Better me than my sister and her unborn child.

You could trust numbers, except perhaps for pi, but he was working on that in his spare time and it was bound to give in sooner or later.

I love you more eternal than pi.

In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them their job. I had no cop buddies. I tried to avoid them as much as possible.

You found me, he said. You didn't hide very well. And I'm a PI.

It relied on measures of geometrical objects: lengths of lines, areas of squares, volumes of cubes. All of these they called magnitudes. They thought of them as distinct from numbers and superior to them. This, I believe, is why Archimedes held pi at arm's length. He didn't know what to make of it. It was a strange, transcendent creature, more exotic than any number.

Yet twenty-two trillion is nothing compared to the infinitude of digits that define the actual pi. Think of how philosophically disturbing this is.

Pi is fundamentally a child of calculus. It is defined as the unattainable limit of a never-ending process.

That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.

But the lieutenant remembers it. He's really good at remembering numbers. Aren't you, sir?" Enoch shrugs modestly. "Where I grew up, memorizing the digits of pi was the closest thing we had to entertainment.

the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.

I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

Without the numbers to the right of pi, pi just becomes three,

If your heart is broken, make art with the pi

I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory, with a brush (Life of Pi 36)

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important

Sonetul c?tre Wer Preatrista mea numit? Wer Numai vederea te mai strânge. ?i-ai pus cuvântul meu cercel Dar to?i î?i mai vorbesc prin sânge! Ai tras prin tine un alt cer S? fiu un plâns f?r? ureche Prin? invizibil ?i stingher Vagabondând o lume veche. Preatrista mea numit? Wer Un vagabond singur e-un rege! (Prin reverii se arat? R sim?ind în cifra ? o lege!) Însingurat de-a nu fi cer Nu poate via?a-mi s? te nege.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

I do admire the new breed of fictional female PI's. The ones who'll survive a throttling, a kidnapping, a punch in the kidneys from a Mafia goon and then wind up the evening making love to a helicopter pilot. In the helicopter. I think I need more time at the gym.