Exist Real Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words exist, real and/or numbers:

    “The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger- print of reality upon the beautiful.”
    —Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)

    “The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?”
    —Hugo Ball (1886–1927)

    “Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.”
    —Robert Hewison (b. 1943)