Exist Real Numbers

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

    There exist few things more tedious than a discussion of general ideas inflicted by author or reader upon a work of fiction.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)