Infinite Continued Fraction

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

    “When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there. For there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.”
    —Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)