Numbers (season 6) Quotes

Numbers (TV series) is a TV program that first aired in 2009 on CBS. Numbers stopped airing in 2010.

Numbers (TV series) was on for 16 episodes.

Numbers (TV series) Quotes

• (Unnamed) "Everything is numbers."

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

• (Unnamed) "I guess I was inspired by Mr. Heisenberg, just like Charlie here suggested."
• (Unnamed) "Heisenberg? What do you mean, the physicist?"
• (Unnamed) "Yeah."
• (Unnamed) "Oh. Your brother goes into a dangerous confrontation with heavily armed felons, and you prepare him with a lecture on the movement of subatomic particles?"
• (Unnamed) "Yep. It worked, didn't it?"

• (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) "Don't call me Chuck."
• (Unnamed) "What if I called you 'chuckie'?"
• (Unnamed) "What if I called you 'Donald'?"
• (Unnamed) "What if I called you 'nerd'?"

• (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) "Dad, sorry, we gotta go."
• (Unnamed) "Sure, right. Couldn't get any worse."
• (Unnamed) "Listen: alcohol. Lots of alcohol."
• (Unnamed) "For who?"

• (Unnamed) "In twenty years of teaching, I have never received evaluation comments like these. Boring; me. Intellectually, uh, inaccessible."
• (Unnamed) "I thought we came up on this hike to get your mind off this ridiculous thing."
• (Unnamed) "I mean, one-one student even said I'm out of touch in cutting-edge thinking in multidimensional theory. That one alone kept me up at night."
• (Unnamed) "Everybody gets bad evaluations now and then, come on."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, yeah, says the professor who never received less than a rave."
• (Unnamed) "As with any large group, there are responses that cover the entire spectrum. I once had a girl in my combinatorics seminar tell me that I was disorganized and I taught too fast."
• (Unnamed) "That's an accurate observation, actually."

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

• (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) "Yeah, yeah, sure. I need you to come to dinner -- at the house, on Wednesday. I have a date."
• (Unnamed) "Oh yeah? A date? Hey, well, that's good. With who?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, it's someone Art knows from yoga. Yeah, her name's Jill. He says she's smart, she's funny, and, uh, quite flexible. So, I, I, eh, I, wh-, we're having dinner at the house, and I would like you to be there."
• (Unnamed) "Hey, look, hey. No. Just take her somewhere low-key, you'll do fine."
• (Unnamed) "Look, it's my first date in over thirty-five years; I would like memorable instead of low-key."
• (Unnamed) "Low-key and memorable aren't mutually exclusive. You know what my favorite date ever was? Pepperoni pizza at a laundromat."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, which explains the conspicuous absence of grandchildren. So, Wednesday, 7:30. Bring a date?"

• (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) "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) "Guy was a pompous ass."

• (Unnamed) "You know that it's considered unsolvable?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, certainly people who have failed to solve it might think that."

• (Unnamed) "When we're working together, we talk and we laugh, and there's? an energy. And I don't understand why that doesn't work outside the office. Why don't we have anything else to talk about?"
• (Unnamed) "You know, you're making an underlying assumption here that I question."
• (Unnamed) "What's that?"
• (Unnamed) "That there's something else you have to talk about. See, when you see two people unable to talk about politics or movies --"
• (Unnamed) "Hey, movies, I; I can; I can talk about; I just saw the penguin movie."
• (Unnamed) "I see two extraordinary minds that can communicate on the purest level a man and woman can interface on."
• (Unnamed) "Okay, second purest."
• (Unnamed) "Geek love."
• (Unnamed) "Hey, no better kind."

• (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) "Three, two, one; execute."

• (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) "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) "Who made this?"
• (Unnamed) "Me. Why?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, wings are a little thin here, buddy."
• (Unnamed) "Hey, wait, wait, let me see this."
• (Unnamed) "Forgive me if all my years of advanced applied mathematics take issue with that assessment."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, well, you'll forgive me if all my years of high school detention say I'm right."

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