Infinite Continued Fraction

Famous quotes containing the words infinite, continued and/or fraction:

    “I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ““Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
    —Camille Paglia (b. 1947)