Numbers (season 4) Quotes

Numbers (TV series) is a TV program that debuted in 2007 on CBS. Numbers stopped airing in 2008.

Numbers (TV series) aired for 18 episodes.

Numbers (TV series) Quotes

• (Unnamed) "Is that the kind of stuff you talk about with Megan at lunch?"
• (Unnamed) "Wait, ho-ho-hold on. You and Megan went out to lunch?"
• (Unnamed) "Oh, please tell me you ordered something other than white food."
• (Unnamed) "This was a meal shared by two inquisitive minds in an intellectual pursuit."
• (Unnamed) "Of course it was, like all your lunches with David. Oh, and with Colby."
• (Unnamed) "A gamma ray burst will release more energy in ten seconds than the sun will emit in its entire ten-billion-year lifespan."
• (Unnamed) "I got it, what's the Hulk's real name?"
• (Unnamed) "Um, Bruce Banner."
• (Unnamed) "That's right. I mean, didn't gamma rays turn him into the Hulk?"
• (Unnamed) "They come from the furthest ends of the universe, and after 45 years, we're still uncertain of their origin."
• (Unnamed) "And?"
• (Unnamed) "And we're closer to an answer on that than the three of you are ever going to get on this."

• (Unnamed) "You know, this isn't the first time I've received a love letter. 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."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah? Did you go?"
• (Unnamed) "Ah, I was fourteen. My mother had to break the news to a very embarrassed female professor at Berkley."

• (Unnamed) "Checkmate."
• (Unnamed) "Checkmate."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, yeah, I see. You guys are ganging up on me, huh? You did that on purpose, that little distraction thing."

• (Unnamed) "Please, understand, sometimes I can't choose what I work on. I can't follow through on a line of thinking just because I want to, or, or because it's needed. I have to work on what's in my head. And right now, this is what's in my head."

• (Unnamed) "You know, here's a discussion: Why is it that we remember the past and not the future?"
• (Unnamed) "That's a tough one, Larry."

• (Unnamed) "Guy was a pompous ass."

• (Unnamed) "You know, Don and Charlie, they graduated high school on the same day."
• (Unnamed) "Thank you. Don's mentioned it. A few times."
• (Unnamed) "Kind of puts an edge on that sibling rivalry thing, you know."
• (Unnamed) "I'm sure it does. Having a kid like Charlie had to put some unusual pressure on the family. How old was he when you first realized he was exceptional?"
• (Unnamed) "He was three when he multiplied four-digit numbers in his head. By the age of four, he needed special teachers, special classes. My wife; I mean, his mother and I, we put a lot of time into his education. It was Don who was the one who had to get used to taking care of himself."
• (Unnamed) "Well, he might have gotten used to it, but I'm not sure he's as good at it as he thinks he is."
• (Unnamed) "Well, it's hard for him to ask anyone for help. And it's really hard for him to ask Charlie."

• (Unnamed) "Colonel in Special Ops said he was the bastard son of Clint Eastwood and Yoda."

• (Unnamed) "Why do they want pictures of us?"
• (Unnamed) "Just -- "Calls back" He's a famous mathematician."
• (Unnamed) "Don't do that."
• (Unnamed) "Hey, get your vogue on, Charlie."

• (Unnamed) "Charlie, where did you learn all this stuff about assassination?"
• (Unnamed) "If I told you that I'd have to kill you."
• (Unnamed) "Okay, seriously."
• (Unnamed) "Seriously."

• (Unnamed) "Three, two, one; execute."

• (Unnamed) "So what does all your behavioral science training tell you about a grown man who still lives with his mother?"
• (Unnamed) "Probably about the same as two brothers still mooching meals at their dad's house three nights a week."

• (Unnamed) "That was better."
• (Unnamed) "What?"
• (Unnamed) "It was. You almost hit the ball."
• (Unnamed) "You know, I'm the king at basketball, I-I-I can snowboard, I'm the best at video games, I'm even getting over my fear of rock climbing. But I still, I can't hit this little white ball."

• (Unnamed) "You assaulted a federal agent with a deadly weapon."
• (Unnamed) "It was a Volkswagen."

• (Unnamed) "Hey, hey, don't get all Fleinhart on me. It's just the Physics Department paper airplane contest."
• (Unnamed) "Fl-Fleinhart? Since when did my last name become a predicate adjective?"
• (Unnamed) "Since your students started using it that way."

• (Unnamed) "Larry, something went wrong, and I don't know what, and now it's like I can't even think."
• (Unnamed) "Well, let me guess: you tried to solve a problem involving human behavior, and it blew up in your face."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, pretty much."
• (Unnamed) "Okay, well, Charles, you are a mathematician, you're always looking for the elegant solution. Human behavior is rarely, if ever, elegant. The universe is full of these odd bumps and twists. You know, perhaps you need to make your equation less elegant, more complicated; less precise, more descriptive. It's not going to be as pretty, but it might work a little bit better. Charlie, when you're working on human problems, there's going to be pain and disappointment. You gotta ask yourself, is it worth it?"

• (Unnamed) "Look, please don't do this."
• (Unnamed) "Don't do what, Don? Go ahead. Go ahead and try to tell me what it is that I'm doing. You don't even know what it is I'm doing."
• (Unnamed) "Actually, I do. The thing is, I don't think you do."
• (Unnamed) "Okay, I'm going to go contemplate the koi pond."
• (Unnamed) "Charlie, look, you helped us find these guys once before. You can do it again. Come on."
• (Unnamed) "Why, so you can get shot again?"
• (Unnamed) "No, buddy, look. Understand, I appreciate you care about me, but it's not going to happen."
• (Unnamed) "Statistically, you're dead now. You understand what that means? A man aimed a gun at your head and fired. The fact that you survived is an anomaly, and it's unlikely to be the outcome of a second such encounter."

• (Unnamed) "Old man?"
• (Unnamed) "I use it strictly as a term of endearment, Father."
• (Unnamed) "Well, get ready, my little boy, 'cause this old man is gonna kick your ass."
• (Unnamed) "What are ya gonna do? You gonna cheat again?"
• (Unnamed) "I'm getting the Scrabble board."
• (Unnamed) "Uh. uh -- Th -- Scrabble's missing a piece."

• (Unnamed) "Aren't you going to introduce me to your girlfriend?"
• (Unnamed) "You've met her before, she's not my girlfriend, I'm her thesis advisor."
• (Unnamed) "Does that mean she can't be your girlfriend?"
• (Unnamed) "It's, uh, it's against the rules."
• (Unnamed) "Well, screw the rules. What's more important, learning or love? Well, I'm sure there's no rule against the father of her thesis advisor asking her out."
• (Unnamed) "Go for it, go right ahead, be my guest."
• (Unnamed) "Thank you. Actually, I'm spoken for, Mr. Eppes."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, really?"
• (Unnamed) "Back in Madras, my parents arranged for marriage to a family friend, a nice Hindu banker from Goa."
• (Unnamed) "Really? Getting married?"
• (Unnamed) "God, no, he's a total ass."
• (Unnamed) "Oh."
• (Unnamed) "Dad, you're, like, hovering over us, and we have so much work to do."
• (Unnamed) "I thought you already helped your brother out on this case."
• (Unnamed) "Something this complex needed to be checked and rechecked."
• (Unnamed) "There's one thing you and your brother have in common: On some things, you're both very thorough; other stuff, you completely miss."

• (Unnamed) "So, about your dream?"
• (Unnamed) "Dad got shot. It was during a holdup, at the deli. It was -- pretty upsetting."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, I'm sure --"
• (Unnamed) "And -- mom made pancakes."
• (Unnamed) "Pancakes?"
• (Unnamed) "I don't even dream normal --"

• (Unnamed) "It's from someone who says she's a fan of my work on low dimensional topology. And she's a fan of my -- hair."

• (Unnamed) "Excuse me? What're you doing?"
• (Unnamed) "Simple experiment. It's a pendulum."
• (Unnamed) "Sir, you and the pendulum need to leave."
• (Unnamed) "Okay. It drew an ellipse."

• (Unnamed) "There's something else that has to be considered."
• (Unnamed) "Like what?"
• (Unnamed) "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Heisenberg noted that the act of observation will effect the observed; in other words, when you watch something, you change it, and uh, uh, for example, an electron, you know, you can't really measure it without bumping into it in some small way. Any physical act of observation requires interaction with a form of energy, like light, and that will change the nature of the electron, its path of travel."
• (Unnamed) "Hold on. You know I got, like, a C in physics, so just take me through how this relates to the case."
• (Unnamed) "Don, you've observed the robbers. They know it. That will change their actions."

• (Unnamed) "Hey, Dad. What are you doing here?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, I-I like coming whenever Charlie gives one of these math-for-dummies lectures. It's the only time I actually understand what he's talking about."

• (Unnamed) "You see this game, Larry? You've got to clear the mines without blowing any up. Each time you clear a square, a numerical value is revealed. That number tells you exactly how many squares containing mines are directly adjacent to that square. This allows you to predict where the next mine will be located and then the more boxes revealed the more accurately one can predict the location of the mines. The pattern used in these bank robberies is similar to this kind of problem-solving pattern. These robbers have used the banks they've been robbing to tell them which ones to rob next."

• (Unnamed) "Everything is numbers."

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