Numb3rs Quotes
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: I'm avoiding Laurel Wilson.
Amita Ramanujan: The professor of philosophy of science?
Charlie Eppes: She's the lady you go hiking with?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: For years we've enjoyed this … I don't know … delightful wilderness-based friendship, entirely platonic. But last night, she and I just veered … we veered off into the carnal.
Amita Ramanujan: I'm taking it didn't go well.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Actually, it was incredible. It was primal. I mean, in the animal, not the numerical, sense. But what I'm saying, this was a perfect event, and, as such, untwinnable.
Amita Ramanujan: So, because the sex was great, the odds are against it ever being great again.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: The replication defies the laws of probability.
Amita Ramanujan: [dryly] So, why try?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: [missing the sarcasm] Yes, yes. That's why I'm here. I mean, it's the perfect refuge.
Charlie Eppes: What do you mean, "the perfect refuge"?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, the math department must be the least libidinous place on campus.
Amita Ramanujan: The professor of philosophy of science?
Charlie Eppes: She's the lady you go hiking with?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: For years we've enjoyed this … I don't know … delightful wilderness-based friendship, entirely platonic. But last night, she and I just veered … we veered off into the carnal.
Amita Ramanujan: I'm taking it didn't go well.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Actually, it was incredible. It was primal. I mean, in the animal, not the numerical, sense. But what I'm saying, this was a perfect event, and, as such, untwinnable.
Amita Ramanujan: So, because the sex was great, the odds are against it ever being great again.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: The replication defies the laws of probability.
Amita Ramanujan: [dryly] So, why try?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: [missing the sarcasm] Yes, yes. That's why I'm here. I mean, it's the perfect refuge.
Charlie Eppes: What do you mean, "the perfect refuge"?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, the math department must be the least libidinous place on campus.
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Terry Lake: He's showing us what he's capable of.
Don Eppes: Well, now it's our turn.
Don Eppes: Well, now it's our turn.
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[Terry and David refused to leave Don and the guy with the bomb]
Don Eppes: Guys, for following orders, not your best moment, but thank you.
Don Eppes: Guys, for following orders, not your best moment, but thank you.
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Don Eppes: I want you to know I don't take for granted what you do.
Charlie Eppes: I never thought you did.
Charlie Eppes: I never thought you did.
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Alan Eppes: Well, it seems like your new math consultant is working out nicely.
Don Eppes: I gotta tell you, dad, I can't think of anyone who could have helped us the way Charlie did in this investigation.
Alan Eppes: You just remember how Charlie is. Can't seem to quit a problem. He's still working on the same one he's had since grade school.
Don Eppes: And what's that?
Alan Eppes: Trying to impress his big brother.
Don Eppes: I gotta tell you, dad, I can't think of anyone who could have helped us the way Charlie did in this investigation.
Alan Eppes: You just remember how Charlie is. Can't seem to quit a problem. He's still working on the same one he's had since grade school.
Don Eppes: And what's that?
Alan Eppes: Trying to impress his big brother.
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Charlie Eppes: Math is nature's language: its method of communicating directly with us. Everything is numbers.
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Don Eppes: A guy drops 70 bucks in a dive bar. He's either buying rounds for the house or else he's wasted off his ass. Either way, he's gonna stand out.
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Don Eppes: What'd you do, you opened it? What is with you, man? Even when we were kids, you were always going through my stuff.
Charlie Eppes: You always had cool stuff.
Charlie Eppes: You always had cool stuff.
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Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh, I see we're off on yet another exciting area of criminology.
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Charlie Eppes: It's like the evidence proves him right and wrong at the same time.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh yeah, the old paradox of Schrödinger's cat.
Alan Eppes: Is that that Persian that keeps hiding out in our garage?
Charlie Eppes: Uh-uh, it's an intellectual exercise.
Alan Eppes: I knew that.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh yeah, the old paradox of Schrödinger's cat.
Alan Eppes: Is that that Persian that keeps hiding out in our garage?
Charlie Eppes: Uh-uh, it's an intellectual exercise.
Alan Eppes: I knew that.
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Charlie Eppes: You know, I've been running some numbers from your minor league days. I wanted to see which ones were the best pitches for you to go after.
Don Eppes: Charlie, I don't like to think about it too much, all right?
Charlie Eppes: Why not? If you can analyze your performance, you can improve it, Don.
Don Eppes: Some things are about how it feels.
Don Eppes: Charlie, I don't like to think about it too much, all right?
Charlie Eppes: Why not? If you can analyze your performance, you can improve it, Don.
Don Eppes: Some things are about how it feels.
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Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Children are wormholes. They're portals into the unreachable future and unattainable past.
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Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Evaluating my immediate prospects for a conventional nuclear family, I've just now begun to consider adoption.
Charlie Eppes: How long have you been considering that?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Three days.
Charlie Eppes: Give it a few more days.
Charlie Eppes: How long have you been considering that?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Three days.
Charlie Eppes: Give it a few more days.
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Charlie Eppes: In the first place, uh, we-we're not even sure that there, that there is a bomb, so …
Alan Eppes: Bomb?
Charlie Eppes: Well, we don't know where it's gonna go off.
Alan Eppes: Well, maybe not, but I would suggest that people quickly taking a ride out of town in an easterly direction might be of help right now.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, possibly not with these current wind conditions.
Alan Eppes: Bomb?
Charlie Eppes: Well, we don't know where it's gonna go off.
Alan Eppes: Well, maybe not, but I would suggest that people quickly taking a ride out of town in an easterly direction might be of help right now.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, possibly not with these current wind conditions.
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Don Eppes: Look, what you hear stays in this room.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don Eppes: A truck carrying three casks of this stuff was hijacked this morning.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh, that's not optimal.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don Eppes: A truck carrying three casks of this stuff was hijacked this morning.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh, that's not optimal.
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Houser: We're fairly confident that hasn't happened yet.
Don Eppes: You're fairly confident?
Don Eppes: You're fairly confident?
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Alan Eppes: Listen, Charlie, if you've got one failing, it's only that you don't think like a criminal … 'course, what does that say about me?
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Alan Eppes: I heard that, uh, Don was leaning towards the wife.
Charlie Eppes: That's right.
Alan Eppes: Seems to be the first place they look nowadays.
Charlie Eppes: I don't understand. I mean, if you hate the person you're married to that much, get divorced.
Alan Eppes: Even the thought of divorce holds its own special horrors, let me tell you.
Charlie Eppes: Well, you and mom never thought about … I mean, I was never witness to any kind of …
Alan Eppes: That's exactly the way we wanted it.
Charlie Eppes: That's right.
Alan Eppes: Seems to be the first place they look nowadays.
Charlie Eppes: I don't understand. I mean, if you hate the person you're married to that much, get divorced.
Alan Eppes: Even the thought of divorce holds its own special horrors, let me tell you.
Charlie Eppes: Well, you and mom never thought about … I mean, I was never witness to any kind of …
Alan Eppes: That's exactly the way we wanted it.
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Don Eppes: Hey, Charlie.
Charlie Eppes: Hey.
Don Eppes: What's up?
Charlie Eppes: Just grading tests for my non-linear dynamics class.
Don Eppes: Glad to see you're taking my advice and having some fun.
Charlie Eppes: Hey.
Don Eppes: What's up?
Charlie Eppes: Just grading tests for my non-linear dynamics class.
Don Eppes: Glad to see you're taking my advice and having some fun.
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Agent Cooper: We spent two weeks in a cemetery once, waiting for this guy to show up at his wife's grave. Grabbed him as he was putting a dozen roses on her headstone.
David Sinclair: She died while he was in prison, huh?
Agent Cooper: Just before he went. He's the one that killed her.
David Sinclair: She died while he was in prison, huh?
Agent Cooper: Just before he went. He's the one that killed her.
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Charlie Eppes: Coincidences are a mathematical reality. Statistically unlikely events can and often do occur. Just look at the genesis of our planet.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, now, I agree that the factors that brought about life on Earth were statistically unlikely, but given the vastness of the cosmos, the limitless possibilities for matter and energy … I'm with Einstein on this. There are no accidents.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, now, I agree that the factors that brought about life on Earth were statistically unlikely, but given the vastness of the cosmos, the limitless possibilities for matter and energy … I'm with Einstein on this. There are no accidents.
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[Talking about a girl with interest in Don]
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: You know, that term "dark matter" has always perplexed me. It fallaciously implies that the 95% of our universe that cannot be observed is some amorphous, eventless emptiness.
Amita Ramanujan: I'm sorry?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: I guess it's all too human. Instead of admitting to the present limits of our knowledge, we just declare things to be unknowable.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: You know, that term "dark matter" has always perplexed me. It fallaciously implies that the 95% of our universe that cannot be observed is some amorphous, eventless emptiness.
Amita Ramanujan: I'm sorry?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: I guess it's all too human. Instead of admitting to the present limits of our knowledge, we just declare things to be unknowable.
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Charlie Eppes: We all use math every day: to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money. Math is more than formulas or equations; it's logic, it's rationality, it's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know.
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Larry Fleinhardt: [challenging Charlie to a game of air hockey] My physics versus your geometry.
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Charlie Eppes: Why do they want pictures of us?
Don Eppes: [yells] He's a famous mathematician!
Charlie Eppes: Don't do that.
Don Eppes: Hey, get your vogue on, Charlie.
Don Eppes: [yells] He's a famous mathematician!
Charlie Eppes: Don't do that.
Don Eppes: Hey, get your vogue on, Charlie.
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Charlie Eppes: It's from someone who says she's a fan of my work. She's also a fan of my … hair.
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Charlie Eppes: You know, this isn't the first love letter I've ever received. When I published my first article in the American Journal of Mathematics, I was invited to spend the weekend at a bed and breakfast in Santa Barbara.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Did you go?
Charlie Eppes: Ah, I was fourteen. My mother had to break the news to a very embarassed female professor at Berkeley.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Did you go?
Charlie Eppes: Ah, I was fourteen. My mother had to break the news to a very embarassed female professor at Berkeley.
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