“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series” MayFactsLeftNumbersPicksSeriesEightAccidentsScalesPairsSpiralsWinding Up Book:At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.” YearsBelieveLooksPersonsSaidDifferentFactsHomeChristianPastAsksI BelieveTraditionCourtEightOutlookConcealedImprisonmentAnti SemiticLutherans Author:Martin Niemoller
“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.” ThinkingMenHumansMadeSometimesFactsRaceMistakeTenMembersEightHuman RacePigsTailsMade A MistakeCrookedHogSwine Book:The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel Source: The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel
“Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.” FactsFunnyStruggleEmptyAskingEightYesterdayOfficialsSeatsOlympicsCastingOrganizerLondon OlympicsEmpty Seats Author:Conan O'Brien