Though we may weigh it as we will, Exhausted and delirious, One-hundred-thirty-seven still Remains for us mysterious. But Eddington, he, sees it clear, Denouncing those who tend to jeer; It is the number of (says he) The world's dimensions. Can it?! be?! —
In: George Gamow - Biography of Physics (p. 327), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1951